QuantumChemist wrote:
Dear_one wrote:
I should have said "accurate imagination." Science helps reduce wild speculation, and lets you get things right the first time.
Anatomy is a small branch of biology. Dissection experience is not central to the field. You could even dissect flowers for useful lessons.
When I was much younger, I had a creepy friend who would search the highway roads for roadkill. He would take them home and do dissections on the carcasses. He was wanting to became a forensic scientist or a toxicologist, so I guess he was training himself early for the dirty side of the work. He also learned taxonomy while doing this. I do not know what he ended up becoming as he moved far away before he graduated.
I used to bring home dead animals with the plan to dissect them. I wanted to be a vet, and was going to have too some day. I never had a problem with it if they were already dead. Plus, the places schools get their specimens from usually breed them just so they can be killed and dissected. They also sometimes will pump a dye through their veins while still alive so students can see them more easily. Not going to be like that in the real world. I also wanted to do taxidermy as a hobby (again, if it's not alive I don't have a problem with it). But my mother always said no.
QuantumChemist wrote:
MagicMeerkat wrote:
Dear_one wrote:
MagicMeerkat wrote:
I was homeschooled and IDK how you teach chemistry without blowing up the house, or the disection aspect of biology without making the house smell like formaldehyde.
The procedures for avoiding explosions are essentially the same in home, school, and industry.
If you were so inclined, you could do dissections of fresh specimens. Or, you could do them outside, or under an exhaust fan. It sounds as if your teacher lacked both science and imagination.
My teacher was my mom. She had lots of good ideas, but she was better at coming up with them than she was putting them into action. She did talk about going to the butcher shop to get things like cow's eyes and hearts. But I can't imagine her actually supervising me without passing out. She gets very easily grossed out and I was never allowed to watch those 90's gross-out cartoons because SHE found them digesting. And I was VERY bad at math so in her eyes I would never be able to do chemistry anyway. Physics she even admitted she wouldn't know how to teach. All the homeschooling co-ops my mom tried were just boys that already knew each other wanted nothing to do with a girl. And the main thing was religion....and I didn't like other kids because all the bullying in public school had taught me that another child was automatically a potential bully.
You likely can learn chemistry, but you do need the right teacher who can work with you on your math issues during this process. For example, I have successfully taught chemistry classes to students who were barely able to multiply or divide using a calculator. While not every teacher can reach every student, there is one out there that can help you. There are also wonderful free online tutorials for chemistry subjects if you still want to learn it in this pandemic era of isolation.
I did eventually get diagnosed with dyscalculia and found a REALLY good tutor who knew how to motivate me by using meerkats and animals...something my mother would never do because it "wouldn't be like that in a college classroom" She also wouldn't even let me count on my fingers, let alone use a calculator. When I was in third grade and my mother told me I might as well pack in the idea of being a vet when I grew up because I would never be able to handle the basic math classes in college undergrad, I gave up and quit trying at anything in school. I only went because you can't drop out in grade school. My mom tried every other trick in the book to motivate me but nothing worked. (I went to public school from kindergarten to 4th grade.)
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05 Oct 2020, 12:48 pm
