What would you learn in a week in school?

[veggiechicken]

This is the opposite to MikeyWills' thread about Historical hangups. http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ups_66666.html
So much that I learnt in school is obsolete because there have been so many changes - but they're still stuck in my head and I can't unlearn them. So I would like to go back to school for a week to learn the new versions of these:

1. Commonwealth countries (the pink bits on the atlas)
2. Countries of Africa, and Russia
3. The counties of the British Isles
4. Imperial measurements

How about you?

[binley100]

Probably to relearn French ........probably pay more attention this time.

[Farmer_Gyles]

my son is 15 .... when he was in primary school, i went to one of the "class presentations" to parents ....
it turned out the class had spent every PE and geography lesson for 2 terms learning Indian dance ....
several years later I still can't work out how that will help him through life ....

i'm 43 .... i was sort of taught metric measurements at school .... yet i'm clueless with metric ... i'm 5' 10", 15st 4lbs, i live 12 miles from the city ... i grew up with decimal currency ... my son looks blankly at me every time i give him "10 bob" ....

all i remember from my geography lessons is that teacher was "hot stuff" .... and how ox-bow lakes are formed ... no idea how the ox-bow lake thing is supposed to help me through life, but i'm sure it'll come to me one day ....

[VirginVegGrower]

How to play marbles on drain covers so that I can teach my kids. They've never known such joys. I'd also go back and tell my maths teacher not to touch my bottom and my Latin teacher to look at my face instead and not letch at girls' chests. Despite this I did actually pass those two O levels. I'd also go and thank my two English teachers. Two of the most inspiring teachers and I was lucky to have them.
Force feeding Mrs Bates the lump ridden and cold mashed potato would be good too.

[mrbadexample]

Here ya go VC, once you've been through this a few times then the countries of Africa will trouble you no more.

Loads more on that site too - improved my geography no end.

[alldigging]

If I could time travel I'd go and speak to the biology teacher about those bees he had!

[veggiechicken]

Here ya go VC, once you've been through this a few times then the countries of Africa will trouble you no more.

Loads more on that site too - improved my geography no end.

That's brilliant MBE, Thanks. I haven't got any right so far

[taff]

we always used to sidetrack our history teacher into telling us about pigs, because he loved them [not like that VC...] so we didn't learn anything historical, apart from what i wrote on my History O level paper, which was...Coal was King. No idea why.
I can't remember that much of school apart from english, latin and art lessons, because those ones had the most inspiring teachers, and because they were my favourite subjects. Well done Mr and Mrs John [English and Latin repsectively, a fab husband and wife combo] and Mr Elias, art.
And my bete noire, Physics....hated the teacher too.
Hmm...I'd learn some Italian ro Welsh, I wasn't good at grammar, I was so worried about messing up, i always messed up

[mrbadexample]

That's brilliant MBE, Thanks. I haven't got any right so far

Stick with it. By the time you've done it a dozen times or so, you know that the Gambia is almost entirely surrounded by Senegal, and Djibouti is that fiddly little bit on the east coast.

Then move on to the capitals round.

When I first found that site I went through every quiz until I could get 100% on the lot. There was a period of time when I could genuinely point to any country in the world on the map, and name the capital city. Of course, when you stop doing it the information falls out of your head as you slowly replace it with beer.

[veggiechicken]

I think I'm going to lose half of my life learning geography on that site. Its compulsive! I did get a few World rivers right so that's progress!

[mrbadexample]

I think I'm going to lose half of my life learning geography on that site. Its compulsive! I did get a few World rivers right so that's progress!

Wait until you're doing Oceania. That's a bleedin' nightmare!

[Mikey]

So I would like to go back to school for a week to learn the new versions of these:

1. Commonwealth countries (the pink bits on the atlas)
2. Countries of Africa, and Russia
3. The counties of the British Isles
4. Imperial measurements

How about you?

Sorry to disappoint you VC, but you can't learn imperial anymore, its all metric these days.

[Patchninja]

i'm 43 .... i was sort of taught metric measurements at school .... yet i'm clueless with metric ... i'm 5' 10", 15st 4lbs, i live 12 miles from the city ... i grew up with decimal currency ... my son looks blankly at me every time i give him "10 bob" ....

all i remember from my geography lessons is that teacher was "hot stuff" .... and how ox-bow lakes are formed ... no idea how the ox-bow lake thing is supposed to help me through life, but i'm sure it'll come to me one day ....

You'd have been 4 when we went metric with money

[veggiechicken]

Sorry to disappoint you VC, but you can't learn imperial anymore, its all metric these days.

No, Mikey, just for a change you misunderstand me!! Those are the things I know and remember but I want to learn the present day versions thereof!

[Mikey]

No, Mikey, just for a change you misunderstand me!! Those are the things I know and remember but I want to learn the present day versions thereof!

This is a mm ., this is 5mm ...., this is a centimetre ........, this is a metre .

















sorry ran out of space.