Neb, there's a difference between not liking to learn things because of the teaching method or not liking to learn new things because you deem them useless. From a lot of the posts here, I assumed that the latter was the case. I completely agree that the teachers should strive to present the information in a fun way and try not to be boring, and I can understand why you would grow bored if teachers don't do that.
However, I maintain that kids shouldn't whine about the usefulness of the information they get, as long as it's taught in a fun, entertaining way.
An example: in my German class at secondary school, we did an in-depth critical analysis of two of Mozart's operas; one in the 5th year, one in the 6th year. It was very intellectually challenging, with difficult music-critical texts and a lot of work to be done, but almost everybody loved it (even the ones who were sure they weren't gonna need this stuff in their future careers). To a great extent, everybody's enjoyment cam from the way our teacher managed to interest us in the whole thing - he was one of the most erudite and intelligent teachers I had at that school, and it was actually a privilege being taught by him. And that's not just my geeky bookworm opinion, he was very popular (though judged quite weird as well
) with everybody else.
[ 05-27-2002, 04:07 PM: Message edited by: Melusine ]