Apparently I have too agreeable a personality to be a child prodigy… To be honest, I remember very little about anything before Grade 5 or so, but I don’t remember specifically disliking my teachers or finding them stupid. I liked my teachers most of the time even if a lot of the time I just ignored them and read books under my day, which may be why my grades were mediocre up until junior high, when I discovered that you were supposed to pay attention in class (and when the material became slightly more interesting!)
I didn’t get a really aggressively stupid teacher (or, at least, one I realised was that stupid) until I was 12. I worked out (I think) 37 times 4 in my head (it was thirty-something times an integer less than five) and he looked at me like I was a suspicious freak who was up to something for having been able to do this in my head and not consider it remarkable. I shudder at the thought that that was ever in charge of children.
Apparently I have too agreeable a personality to be a child prodigy… To be honest, I remember very little about anything before Grade 5 or so, but I don’t remember specifically disliking my teachers or finding them stupid. I liked my teachers most of the time even if a lot of the time I just ignored them and read books under my day, which may be why my grades were mediocre up until junior high, when I discovered that you were supposed to pay attention in class (and when the material became slightly more interesting!)
I didn’t get a really aggressively stupid teacher (or, at least, one I realised was that stupid) until I was 12. I worked out (I think) 37 times 4 in my head (it was thirty-something times an integer less than five) and he looked at me like I was a suspicious freak who was up to something for having been able to do this in my head and not consider it remarkable. I shudder at the thought that that was ever in charge of children.