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Something that my high school chemistry teacher once said to me (and I hated him at the time, and did awful in his class, but learned TONS of life lessons from
by zackattack 17y ago
Something that my high school chemistry teacher once said to me (and I hated him at the time, and did awful in his class, but learned TONS of life lessons from him) is that the best way to meet with a teacher is to do as much possible preparatory work ahead of time, in efforts not to waste his time. Preparatory work: specific list of questions you don't know answers to, for example.
People are almost always willing to help if you do your prep work.
- rgrieselhuber 17y agoWeird. I had almost the exact same experience with my chemistry teacher too.
- nopassrecover 17y agoSame
- derefr 17y agoI think high school chemistry is the closest the Western, public, pre-university curriculum comes to actual, empirical science. It's the only course I had in high school where we took doing experiments (and writing them up) seriously. Geology and psychology were purely lecture-based, and physics and biology were rooted more in demonstrations (because of a lack of resources, I suppose) than student participation. Chemistry teachers, therefore, are the most likely people in a high school to think in a rational, investigatory mindset.
- misterbwong 17y agoI was taught something similar by one of my mentors. Always bring something to the table in any discussion (or more broadly, relationship). No one likes to be sucked dry.