school

[tartwitahart]

who actually likes doing science at school i think its sooooo boring and my teacher always makes it so boring how about you?

[steveb]

im doing biology physics and chemistry for A level, i enjoy science, especially physics, what parts dont you like?

[Thunderchild]

theurcerainly missng out on something mate. sureyour tacher may make it boing prbaly cause /she finds it boring or is bored of teaching te same thing all the time. science has always intrigued me and it covers many things most important it is about the world around you and knowing about where u live and how it works is very important in life unless u want to be dependant on other people and have them screw u if they want cause ur a dunce. i also found school very uninspirationl but i sout knowledge out of school in my own time in my own way and still do. i even read particular sections of my own school books but when and how i wanted eeking things i was particularily interested in.

[steveb]

well said thunder

[Thunderchild]

tks incidently owing to my general knowledge i tend to be able to sort out things for myself quite a lot and often find most people so dumb. hope that inspires u tart. learning is about more than school and frankly i learnt more out than in.

[newtron]

I have always liked science and wanted to be a scientist since I was very young.  If you can look past celebritys, soaps, and all that other **** that we get fed from the TV, there is a big crazy world out there that we still don't understand very well.  Science provides a method of exploring that world.     

[jake-the-peg]

One of the problems with school, science in particular, is that you are generally expected to do all the boring foundation work before progressing on to all the interesting stuff.

It's true that you have to know about Netwons laws before you can understand relativity but you don't necessarily have to know electrostatics.

Richard Feynmann, as well as being one of the twentieth centuaries great physicists also got involved with science education amoungst other things he wrote a series of brilliant lectures for first year science undergratuates that coverred basic areas and moved quickly onto the good stuff. His lectures became so famously good that his appearences had to be kept secret so that first years could get in.

Unfortunately not every teacher is this gifted and you really have to love a subject to have that interest survive a poor teacher.

[rojash]

It's a pity your teacher makes it boring. When I was at school I hated chemistry, then our chemistry master was off sick for a term, and we were taught chem by the physics master, who had to regularly consult the text books himself. Even so, he made the lessons interesting, and I learnt more chemistry in that one term than in the preceding four years.

[tartwitahart]

to stevab i dont like any parts of science

[Hammer]

You probably don't like it because it's not on your wavelength (scirntific pun not intended)

I'm generalising wildly here and don't mean to upset or offend you, but I bet if David Beckham came to your school to give a talk on how he curves his free kicks, or Justin Timberlake came to explain the finer points of stage lighting and sound system dynamics, you would be slightly more interested.

Apologies if I sound patronising, but the point I am making is that if the stuff you are learning interests you on a personal level, you are much more likely to enjoy learning it.

[ezapf]

Basic science was sooooo boring, but learned some cool stuff.
Thought I would love Biology - it was OK.
Thought I would hate Chemistry - Loved it.
Feared Physics - by far the coolest and well worth the effort.
Stick with it and try to stay awake during class.

[Thunderchild]

more than likely u find it boring because u do not see any practical application for it. this is why i can't stand learning poetry because it is not useful to me to know by heart but many other things r. if u try and find a pratical aspect to what u r studying then u will find it more interesting. maybe if u probe your teacher with a question or two he/she will be very happy that someone is interrsted and try and make the practical side plainer and help u to understand it.

put it this way. if a catastrophy happened tomorow and everything was destroyed would u be able to survive or would u die because u don't understand the world around u and r unable to work out how to survive just to eat and shelter urself ? if ur answer is i would die then u better get going i know this is an extreme example but i see u as a slow thinker (with no offence) it take no effort to think and observe what is around u.

try this: find something u want to know say what is lightning and then go and ask ur teacher. he/she will be pleased to help and if u approach sience from the ground up u will find it more interesting than studying theory and then woundering what it's for !

[Dagman]

Hi tartwitahart, I guess you're just one of those people who looks at something and thinks, 'so what, it is what it is, why work out why!'  You could look at it by thinking, what has it got to do with me, how will it affect my life? then throw questions at teach and watch him try to explain perhaps not interesting but fun if he squirms for an answer like one of my teachers always did! A lot of teachers tell you what they think you need to know, instead ask what you want to know, make him earn his wages. Science gives us so much, ask him for practical stuff to show how we all benefit from it, show you, not tell! Our teach blew himself one day up cos he couldn't do a simple demo with a paint tin. what a laugh! now that's not boring.