Before I got this one English Teacher, I could spell anything, I had worked out my own methods of spelling but becouse they were not "Conventional" she viewed them as wrong and everytime I used them she would call my dumb, lazy, and mark my work as wrong. My math teacher when she was trying to show me math concepts I figured how to get them faster and easier, she asked me how I was doing it and I told her. She didn't believe me so I showed her. She still wanted me to use her 'conventional' method, a method I did not understand. As a result, because they forbade me with grades, I learned to dread the subjects, later I encountered an English teacher that welcomed me and my thoughts I then understood English, I learnt to to love it. Not so with math, I still have a hard time.
That is what I mean by we get dumber as we get older. Would a smart person listen to these people and let their words hold them captive?
[This message has been edited by jonah (edited December 20, 2002).]
