What was your favourite school subject?

The word "education" comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out.

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I really enjoyed school compared to a lot of people, so its hard to pick 3, I loved

Maths
English (Lit and Language)
Science

I didn't mind History, French I was good at despite not being fussed, Performing Arts etc IT was OK but a bit basic considering I was programming on my own from about 8. Geography was a bit meh, as was Design Tech. PE was just fucking about as was anything PSE/RE based. That said I secretly liked RE and learning about the religions but it was the fuck about class and our teachers were all MEEK so we all took the piss.

For a kid who did speed in class I got As and Bs in pretty much everything apart Tech & Geography I think, and even in those I got a C. School was too easy.
 
I remember an RE lesson where we just MEDITATED for the whole 40 minutes. That was great
 
I remember when I was the hottest, youngest person on here. Deleting this account soon!

I enjoyed Geography (HARD, PHYSICAL geography, not gay human geography), playing football and tennis with my friends in PE, and Media was pretty good, even if it was literally one of the most pointless exercises of my life (before I did my degree at least :tongue:).
 
I loved French and Business Studies, with a side order of Food and Nutritional Studies as well.

At Sixth Form I did an extra GCSE in Film Studies, which I absolutely fucking ADORED and got an A* for.
 
Music, loves

because I’m a big old gay :evil:
 
My favourite was English, and I had bunch of really great English teachers like the guy who made us study the MONORAIL song from The Simpsons to understand persuasive language, and the lady who wore KAFTANS and pulled me aside to tell me I had TALENT after we had a short story assignment. Without her encouragement maybe I wouldn't be writing critically acclaimed MARKETING COPY today.

I also really liked history, with a caveat that I didn't enjoy it as much in secondary school when we ditched the Greeks, Romans, and Henry's wives (Anne Boleyn, the original QoL) for years and years of World War studies. A low point was being in a class with cunts who thought it was FUNNY to include cattle noises in their PowerPoint presentation about the Holocaust. I guess that's what you get from an all-boys grammar in the Tory heartlands. Hell on Earth.

I liked languages too, although I've forgotten pretty much everything I learned.

I regret taking psychology at A Level instead of classics. Psychology was TRIPE.
 
We had some right characters of English teachers as well. I found our very camp one on Facebook the other week, now retired and living in London with his boyfriend, ranting about how the bastards at the school got rid of him for speaking out about the Chaplain's inappropriate behaviour with children. :disco: Bless him.
 
Geography and History; always and forever! :disco:

And yet I ended up with a master in Biochemistry. :square:

Mind you, among science studies Chemistry was the obvious choice and I loved it up until a certain degree. Maths I also came to love. The more complicated it got the more I liked it.
 
However, I absolutely detested all practical/creative subjects. Art, Music, Sports.... and what do you call that awful subject where they taught you how to cook? I couldn’t stand it, and still to this day I couldn’t draw a thing and still don’t cook.
 
I don't think I had one. Some were bearable, some were dreadful. I hated being at school.
 
I loved French, history (we were taught about pretty interesting eras), PE and English Language. I enjoyed English Lit too but the A level syllabus was a tad dreary and delivered by somebody who really taught like they should be a maths teacher.
 
I loved all languages (and I’ve studied many) when it came to grammar, but where never good in actual speaking and writing.
 
RaspberrySwirl said:
I loved all languages (and I’ve studied many) when it came to grammar, but where never good in actual speaking and writing.
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I’d have tried as many as they’d have allowed me! Maybe I should do a different thread for linguists but I always found reading a language easiest. In order of ease:

1 reading
2 writing
3 speaking
4 listening
 
It can depend on the language I guess but I’m fluent in Portuguese pretty much but damn do I have to concentrate when they speak to me.
 
I hated school and everything about it. The only lessons I didn't mind were fabric art and typing, I wouldn't say I liked them but I didn't hate them.
 
Latin was fun because you didn't have to bother with the tiresome speaking/listening exams.

Like, you could have the best vocab in the world but who can keep up with JURGEN's fast-paced account of his many, many hobbies?
 
All I remember from Latin is lovely Caecilius from the textbooks:
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We were the last year group to study it and it was cancelled after first year. The first half of the year was Classical Studies/Ancient History and I loved that. I did Spanish and French to GCSE and kept Spanish through to A Level but got rid of it in the middle of A2.

My teacher always told me that my essays were great but a key component of learning a language was actually forcing myself to speak. I was very shy and socially awkward and used to dread speaking lessons with Senora Serano when all she'd do was ask, "What are you going to do this weekend?" on a Friday and "What did you do during the weekend" on a Monday. Sometimes I'd make up stories instead of telling her I sat in playing Age of Empires. :(

Bad memories. Wish I'd kept it up now.
 
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