What is one (are some) lesson (s) you have learned in school that were not part of the curriculum and yet, were learned in class - preferably helpful lessons?
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Never get infatuated with the lecturer. +4
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that the professers aren't going to babysit you.that you paid for your classes and you are responsible.there will be no little notes or phone calls going home to mommy and daddy.
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if you pay for it they will give it to you.
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That these people don't matter and in a few years you won't even remember their names, so don't worry what they say or think about you
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I guess because I went back as a nontraditional student and was older, I wasn't overawed by college. I had also worked in a college for a couple of years and many of my friends were PhD.s, so I wasn't overawed by them anymore either. What I learned in college, and in grade school too, is that modern education isn't about teaching you to think and giving you a basis of material to work from anymore. Modern education is about indoctrinating you into a school of thought and into a political school of thought. If you are willing to tell them what they want to hear you'll do well, whether you've actually thought about what you are saying or just regurgitated what you've been told. If you disagree with your professors, you don't usually do very well. The National Teacher's Exam has few questions about any facts that you might be expected to teach your students. Most of it is about modern political thought in education. If you know the politics, you can pass the test, even if you aren't very good at your subject matter.
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I lately - but not too late - understood one can learn deeper, easier and larger when teaching than when learning.
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That drinking and studying dont mix
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I like your question. Be genuinely interested in other people; artifice need not apply.
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from the book slaughter house V "SO IT GOES."
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A whole lotta bullshit passes for "knowledge"! Maintain a healthy doubt! ;-)
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