I’m a high school student. I ask a lot of questions in classes, especially math and discussion-based classes like “Science and Religion”. In math, this is an unwillingness to miss something and to back to it later—if I fail to understand one part of a lesson, it makes understanding the other parts hard. In “science and religion”, I ask loaded questions that disrupt the class by turning it into a complicated debate between me and the teacher. This is because I have little respect for the (boring) subject matter, believe I’m smarter than the teacher, and would rather entertain myself and my classmates by defeating the teacher in battles of wits than sit with a book and listen to the teacher explain that god’s existence is inherently un-investigatable.
TLDR: I ask questions to improve my understanding; I disrupt class because I’m arrogant and competitive.
I’m a high school student. I ask a lot of questions in classes, especially math and discussion-based classes like “Science and Religion”. In math, this is an unwillingness to miss something and to back to it later—if I fail to understand one part of a lesson, it makes understanding the other parts hard. In “science and religion”, I ask loaded questions that disrupt the class by turning it into a complicated debate between me and the teacher. This is because I have little respect for the (boring) subject matter, believe I’m smarter than the teacher, and would rather entertain myself and my classmates by defeating the teacher in battles of wits than sit with a book and listen to the teacher explain that god’s existence is inherently un-investigatable.
TLDR: I ask questions to improve my understanding; I disrupt class because I’m arrogant and competitive.