I thank my parents for getting me into accelerated math (4 years of HS level math in 2). It's the only class that required me to have any study skills (beyond cramming and spitting information back out) while I was in junior high and high school. If I hadn't done that, I might have ended up flunking out of college, because my small town school system did not teach me how to study.
(And I got very bored and developed something of an attitude problem because of that. For example, my junior high English teacher told me "you're obviously not putting any effort into this class" and my smart-aleck answer was "why should I, I'm getting an A". Which was true, but about as disrespectful as I could get without actually swearing at her.)
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I thank my parents for getting me into accelerated math (4 years of HS level math in 2). It's the only class that required me to have any study skills (beyond cramming and spitting information back out) while I was in junior high and high school. If I hadn't done that, I might have ended up flunking out of college, because my small town school system did not teach me how to study.
(And I got very bored and developed something of an attitude problem because of that. For example, my junior high English teacher told me "you're obviously not putting any effort into this class" and my smart-aleck answer was "why should I, I'm getting an A". Which was true, but about as disrespectful as I could get without actually swearing at her.)