kraftiekortie wrote:
Teachers tended to dislike me because I didn't raise my hand. Later, it was a mixed bag.
My personal goal throughout public-school education was to avoid being recognized in any of my classes (by the teachers or students). A school day where I wasn't called on to answer a question or, worse, explain my answer, was a good day. I hoped and prayed for absolute social invisibility. Needless to say, I never raised my hand for any reason. If a fire broke out, I planned to walk out of the room quickly and quietly without telling anyone.
As such, my teachers, who knew of my IQ and ordinary testing scores, often considered my resistence to cooperate with the Socratic method and any amount of homework as an example of their failure (listening was my favorite and most effective way to learn; students waving their hands around or shouting down each other with conflicting answers confused me). Of course, I guess I can see their concern, what with a high-testing student who sat mute and motionless, staring at the floor for an hour. They might have disliked me (I neither knew nor cared), but their reactions never rose to the level of anything beyond humiliating.
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25 Dec 2014, 6:57 pm
