Honestly what you learn in school might not always be useful (history and math are fairly important tho IMO) but teaching you to learn and research are very useful skills that adults tend to disregard.
I just didn't like working with chemistry equations and stuff. Maybe I also found it less interesting because I did regular chemistry online and wasn't as engaged as I was in regular Biology or AP Physics.
What they mean is that they like science but they don't like the subject Chemistry which is part of science, I'm interested in chemistry but i haven't done anything like that yet.
This sub is just filled with the most stereotypical redditors about. Saw a comment downvoted for saying only showering once a week is unacceptable earlier. Its just too funny for me to not stick around.
These results always interest me. Most users here are American. They're taught little about world history and lessons on their own history are cherry-picked and biased, and that's not just in Texas. Do you guys like it cause it's easy compared to other subjects or something?
Comparatively speaking it is simpler.
Our brains are better at remembering stories we learn in history than rote figures (like we learn in the hard sciences) and math is just plain difficult because there are infinitely many wrong answers and exactly one correct answer.
English always seemed a bit boring and tedious…education for education’s sake, if you will. PE is too sweaty for the Reddit community, so that leaves history.
But it could totally be what you said about the cherry picked curricula of American civics and history courses that is totally a unique and isolated issue to the United States and never found anywhere else ever nope never not once at all. :-|
I found it the opposite. I always found it hard remembering stories and facts, but I liked things like math more because I could remember the logic.
In history you have to remember x, y, & z about particular events, but if you forget 1 of the details then you're just wrong. But in math, you don't remember specific solutions. You don't even have to completely remember most formulas or problem solving approaches. The problems are usually things you can "figure out" with multiple approaches.
Never said it's a problem only found in America, simply that it is a big problem in America. I can't speak for other nations as I have never taken courses elsewhere.
> math is just plain difficult as...
I might have to disagree on that. Math (excluding A math, or whatever you call the subject that teaches integration) and science subjects, at least for what you are taught before university, only has one single correct answer, and the possible methods to the answer is finite.
Language subjects on the other hand are way harder. No standard answers, similar answers could result in way different scores, infinitely many solutions to a single question, especially in writing. Although it seems good that you dont need to score the exact goal, the reality is that when you thinks you have shoot the goal dead-on, it flew way off, when the others shoot at the same goal at the same position using almost the same tactics scores 99%. But when you emulate their actions then you still shoot way off. At least thats what happening to me.
I dunno man, I'm pretty sure I learned about the things that happened here during the communist regime, and what happened to the Germans after ww2 here...
Pro tip: I'm Czech
Fun fact: It is believed that Czechia is the only country where the Communists didn't win by cheating rhe elections, it was almost 50/50 but they won legitimately... but the opinion quickly changed if you know what happened in the following years
It’s weird but as an American, I never really learned about WW1 or WW2. Teachers always start in the front of the textbook and WW1/WW2 are usually towards the back chronological.
Idk if it was like this for everyone but what I learned was
6th grade: social studies
7th grade: World Geography (very basic but learning about the tip of the iceberg from England monarchs, North Africa monarchs, the Africa Gold Coast (Ghana/Nigeria) rulers, Latin America (Aztec/Inca), and Chinese Dynasty’s. Didn’t cover anything Germanic or Eastern European
8th grade: US History (starting from England, why we left, Christopher Columbus, very in-depth into the Revolutionary War). Also started Civil War
9th grade: Literally the same as 8th grade but a little bit more technical
10th grade: Same as 7th grade but a little bit more technical
11th and 12th I honestly don’t even remember. I don’t even remember if I had history those years
If an American sees this can you please correct me or say how your school did things?
Generally it works about the same way but I think it depends on school size. You have to take a class that meets a certain credit so you if you need an Art credit you can choose between Music, Drawing, Photography, etc. I attended a very small high school so we didn’t really get to choose anything too fancy lol
Idk. In my school the AP US history classes are fairly interesting and teach a lot about US history. AP US Government was interesting and we learnt about current events and stuff going on. Only sad thing is that my school didn't offer AP world history or I would have taken it. I guess some schools might not teach them well but AP classes need to teach all of the material without cherry picking.
I mostly enjoy history because it’s something I actually enjoy looking into in my own time and not just at school. Yeah it’s easy (at least in my school) but I do like being able to write essays and comparing historical events to another.
Yeah I liked it cause it was easiest compared to other subjects and *new*. Up until I learned about it in 8th grade I never even heard about the Civil War. Math and Science is always the same old shit adding on more complicated shit. History was typically new material and US history in particular is still fresh enough that it’s actually somewhat relatable compared to learning about monarchs from the Middle Ages
I think that we’ve learned state and US history for 8 out of the 12 years in school. And that number isn’t higher because I chose to take AP European History, a government class, and an economics class.
History? What? I don't get it, to me it's just memorizing facts and dates. You can't use it to do stuff, you just... know facts. I'm completely open to anyone who wants to change my mind
Subjects should teach valuable information. History does not. Something being "interesting" for a few people shouldn't be valued over important knowledge and skills
Who said history isn’t valuable information? We learn from the past and from our mistakes. Also are you saying we shouldn’t learn about the holocaust? Or ww1/2? That would be an injustice to the millions of people who died in such atrocities. Also I personally learned a lot about my own family name and roots from learning about colonialism in my country.
I remember for Dutch I had to read [a text written by a Dutch historian](https://www.maartenonline.nl/geschiedenis-je-leert-er-helemaal-niets-van/) about how we think that we can learn from history, but we actually can't, because every time the situation is slightly different. This doesn't mean learning about history isn't important of course
>if you view it as just facts then it’ll seem boring.
That's an issue with the class not the student. Most history classes I had were entirely memory based.
Yeah most history classes are memory based and because the education system mostly sucks there’s only so much you can like about learning material. But, with that being said I would rather memorize historical events than math formulas bc it’s more interesting to learn about so I don’t really find it boring.
History(at least Advanced Placement in my school) teaches critical thinking because you need to know how to analyze documents and write something with it(DBQ and FRQ). Even multiple choice is hardly ever pure memorization.
What country do you live in? That might change how it's taught. Also depends on where you live regardless of country. Some schools and teachers are better than others and it's an unfortunate fact. I have noticed that advanced courses tend to be more interesting and engaging as well.
I see. I mean some people just don't like some subjects regardless. It's like that here as well. It's impossible to force people to like it. Even though I liked the class, it's likely that others found it boring.
I think that's really sad if that's how you were taught history, but I know that's how some schools do it. It's learning some of the most amazing human *stories*, chains of events, people's lives that changed the world.
It's legit concerning that so many people like history class, considering how, at least in the USA, history class is more like fantasy story time instead of actually teaching it how it happened. I can't even count how many times I've been told that the native Americans accepted US rule, or that racism ended in 1968, or that native American and Hawaiian culture just faded away instead of it being brutally suppressed, or that the USA was the oldest, first, or only democracy.
Are you in the US or another English dominant country? At least for my district we rarely had any writing assignments that really let us express ourselves. And when we did it was just over what we learned from long gone and dusty author.
My issue was that it was subjective. I can't analyze a poem when the author was clearly just horny. It was basically just "how to sound smart 101". I think we should put more emphasis on how fucking stupid authors actually are.
Sounds like a bad teacher. I think you’d like college literature classes, the ones I took encouraged critical analysis. Two things I remember that were really fun were an essay about how much I hated pastoral poetry and in one film class how much I hated the main character even though they were supposed to be sympathetic.
I love history but I hate how schools teach history, as in Chile they just use the class to brainwash the youth with socialist shit and in the US they just teach useless stuff,. But those are the only countries I have lived in so I don't know about others.
In high school where I am (Canada) the first two years (9 and 10) are broad in scope (science, math). But when you reach grades 11 and 12, it becomes differentiated (chemistry, precalculus etc).
High school environment generally. I had good teachers and labs but high school was generally traumatic for me and school designed in the flow of constant daily lessons like that as opposed to 1-3x per week was just so hard to focus or maintain engagement. I got straight As but only by being a robot when it came to school.
Spanish. Loved it. Took it for GCSE and A-level (UK school and 16-18 college qualifications for non-Brits). Loved it with every teacher that taught us.
Then for some reason thought it would be a good idea to do *maths* at university...
Oddly, I absolutely hated French though.
I only liked subjects with cool ass teachers that like teaching the subject as a passion and made me want to learn when i was going to school so that would be Art, Science and Geography that i enjoyed the most
High School Art, Choir, and Visual Communication were my favorite! Too bad I couldn't finish Viscom because of depression and quarantine. I still graduated by finishing my hardest class; Chemistry. I have both a diploma and a certificate.
BA in Art History. Has it done anything for me professionally? No. Would I do all over again? Hell yes, there's value in education for education's sake. There used to be value attributed to a classical education. Thanks STEM!
I am somewhat weird but both physics and history on the same level, however, math/English (in my case Polish) are not interesting at all to me so I choose smaller evil and went for extended physics and math not history and Polish
Well I’d be nice if I could pick both math and science. Not because I like them equally, but because what I do like, massively involves both.
Physics. So math and science.
As a PE teacher, I’m sorry this has the lowest votes. I’m passionate about my job, and I’m not American so I get paid well. A crap PE teacher can have such a negative impact on the physical health and fitness level of students once they graduate.
Going home
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That'd be me because i love the feeling of falling onto a nice and clean bed after a long day of learning things we problably won't use as adults
Nice name
Thanks, I got inspo from my fave ACNH youtuber FroggyCrossing and i thought it'd be cool if my name was in front of Crossing instead of Froggy
I'm VampbatCrossing on Twitter!
Honestly what you learn in school might not always be useful (history and math are fairly important tho IMO) but teaching you to learn and research are very useful skills that adults tend to disregard.
Science hell yes, chemistry no.
Chemistry is science
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Yeah I know but chemistry is a subsection of science Why am I getting downvoted, I'm right?
Yeah but I liked Physics and Biology so I picked Science. I wasn't a big fan of Chemistry.
Physics is just glorified math
I guess. I'd say it's just where math is applied. There is a lot of math involved but you also need to know other stuff.
Chem is just glorified physics. Bio is just glorified chem.
Math is everything
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I just didn't like working with chemistry equations and stuff. Maybe I also found it less interesting because I did regular chemistry online and wasn't as engaged as I was in regular Biology or AP Physics.
you can like science without liking chemistry, just as you can like any general category without liking all of its subcategories
Yeah, I meant I like science but not specifically chemistry. Biology was my favorite subject in high school
What they mean is that they like science but they don't like the subject Chemistry which is part of science, I'm interested in chemistry but i haven't done anything like that yet.
I really did not like chemistry, I'm more of a physics kind of guy
Oh chem was my fav
"Computer Sciences" aka programming. When I went to high school it was Turing and Visual Basic 4.0.
Now it's python and sometimes java if your teacher is stuck in the "old days"
If your teacher does JavaScript instead of Python for your first time learning programming proper, God help you.
I did javascript first and it wasn't bad at all
Or web development if you go to a school where the average graduating class is less than 50 people
Best subject, I'm doing python, C and Assembly, I just love the problem solving and making what I want the computer to do, happen.
art \-an art major
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Thanks, I already have one ♡
I don't know why people assume all art majors want to paint or draw for a living. You can make money off of that, but there are so many other jobs
Nice profile picture! Wonder what job the person who made it has
German and english as second language
music
Math is supreme, it’s just taught poorly IMHO.
Agreed. I hated math until I was in hs. The only good thing my school really had was good hs math teachers
Going home is my subject
Gym is last Reddit moment
This sub is just filled with the most stereotypical redditors about. Saw a comment downvoted for saying only showering once a week is unacceptable earlier. Its just too funny for me to not stick around.
I remember most people liking gym.
Same gym is one of the only good subjects
Foreign Language
These results always interest me. Most users here are American. They're taught little about world history and lessons on their own history are cherry-picked and biased, and that's not just in Texas. Do you guys like it cause it's easy compared to other subjects or something?
Comparatively speaking it is simpler. Our brains are better at remembering stories we learn in history than rote figures (like we learn in the hard sciences) and math is just plain difficult because there are infinitely many wrong answers and exactly one correct answer. English always seemed a bit boring and tedious…education for education’s sake, if you will. PE is too sweaty for the Reddit community, so that leaves history. But it could totally be what you said about the cherry picked curricula of American civics and history courses that is totally a unique and isolated issue to the United States and never found anywhere else ever nope never not once at all. :-|
I found it the opposite. I always found it hard remembering stories and facts, but I liked things like math more because I could remember the logic. In history you have to remember x, y, & z about particular events, but if you forget 1 of the details then you're just wrong. But in math, you don't remember specific solutions. You don't even have to completely remember most formulas or problem solving approaches. The problems are usually things you can "figure out" with multiple approaches.
Never said it's a problem only found in America, simply that it is a big problem in America. I can't speak for other nations as I have never taken courses elsewhere.
I’m just giving you a hard time, sorry if I came across too gruff!
> math is just plain difficult as... I might have to disagree on that. Math (excluding A math, or whatever you call the subject that teaches integration) and science subjects, at least for what you are taught before university, only has one single correct answer, and the possible methods to the answer is finite. Language subjects on the other hand are way harder. No standard answers, similar answers could result in way different scores, infinitely many solutions to a single question, especially in writing. Although it seems good that you dont need to score the exact goal, the reality is that when you thinks you have shoot the goal dead-on, it flew way off, when the others shoot at the same goal at the same position using almost the same tactics scores 99%. But when you emulate their actions then you still shoot way off. At least thats what happening to me.
Unpopular opinion. I think biased history is in every country. There's always history that nations try to hide.
there is always some bias but America is one of the most biased
I dunno man, I'm pretty sure I learned about the things that happened here during the communist regime, and what happened to the Germans after ww2 here... Pro tip: I'm Czech Fun fact: It is believed that Czechia is the only country where the Communists didn't win by cheating rhe elections, it was almost 50/50 but they won legitimately... but the opinion quickly changed if you know what happened in the following years
That is incorrect.
That's not an opinion that's just an incorrect statement
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It’s weird but as an American, I never really learned about WW1 or WW2. Teachers always start in the front of the textbook and WW1/WW2 are usually towards the back chronological. Idk if it was like this for everyone but what I learned was 6th grade: social studies 7th grade: World Geography (very basic but learning about the tip of the iceberg from England monarchs, North Africa monarchs, the Africa Gold Coast (Ghana/Nigeria) rulers, Latin America (Aztec/Inca), and Chinese Dynasty’s. Didn’t cover anything Germanic or Eastern European 8th grade: US History (starting from England, why we left, Christopher Columbus, very in-depth into the Revolutionary War). Also started Civil War 9th grade: Literally the same as 8th grade but a little bit more technical 10th grade: Same as 7th grade but a little bit more technical 11th and 12th I honestly don’t even remember. I don’t even remember if I had history those years If an American sees this can you please correct me or say how your school did things?
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Generally it works about the same way but I think it depends on school size. You have to take a class that meets a certain credit so you if you need an Art credit you can choose between Music, Drawing, Photography, etc. I attended a very small high school so we didn’t really get to choose anything too fancy lol
Idk. In my school the AP US history classes are fairly interesting and teach a lot about US history. AP US Government was interesting and we learnt about current events and stuff going on. Only sad thing is that my school didn't offer AP world history or I would have taken it. I guess some schools might not teach them well but AP classes need to teach all of the material without cherry picking.
We are taught a lot about world history actually, it is its own class in high school. And I like it because it’s interesting to learn about.
I mostly enjoy history because it’s something I actually enjoy looking into in my own time and not just at school. Yeah it’s easy (at least in my school) but I do like being able to write essays and comparing historical events to another.
Yeah I liked it cause it was easiest compared to other subjects and *new*. Up until I learned about it in 8th grade I never even heard about the Civil War. Math and Science is always the same old shit adding on more complicated shit. History was typically new material and US history in particular is still fresh enough that it’s actually somewhat relatable compared to learning about monarchs from the Middle Ages
I think that we’ve learned state and US history for 8 out of the 12 years in school. And that number isn’t higher because I chose to take AP European History, a government class, and an economics class.
Math, History and Science, all three of these
Woodshop
Geography is where it’s at (pun intended)
Pe, cause its the one thing I'm alright at, and we get to do football
Normally my PE in school was always just some stretching and then football or volleyball. Almost everyone loved PE.
Bruh where I'm from PE (sports) is usually everyone's favourite subject
Yeah same
History? What? I don't get it, to me it's just memorizing facts and dates. You can't use it to do stuff, you just... know facts. I'm completely open to anyone who wants to change my mind
It’s interesting to learn stories and events from the past and the impact it’s had on the future…if you view it as just facts then it’ll seem boring.
Subjects should teach valuable information. History does not. Something being "interesting" for a few people shouldn't be valued over important knowledge and skills
Who said history isn’t valuable information? We learn from the past and from our mistakes. Also are you saying we shouldn’t learn about the holocaust? Or ww1/2? That would be an injustice to the millions of people who died in such atrocities. Also I personally learned a lot about my own family name and roots from learning about colonialism in my country.
It teaches critical thinking.
History is important, we have to learn from it to prevent making the same mistakes again and again
I remember for Dutch I had to read [a text written by a Dutch historian](https://www.maartenonline.nl/geschiedenis-je-leert-er-helemaal-niets-van/) about how we think that we can learn from history, but we actually can't, because every time the situation is slightly different. This doesn't mean learning about history isn't important of course
"Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
Ok?
>if you view it as just facts then it’ll seem boring. That's an issue with the class not the student. Most history classes I had were entirely memory based.
Yeah most history classes are memory based and because the education system mostly sucks there’s only so much you can like about learning material. But, with that being said I would rather memorize historical events than math formulas bc it’s more interesting to learn about so I don’t really find it boring.
History(at least Advanced Placement in my school) teaches critical thinking because you need to know how to analyze documents and write something with it(DBQ and FRQ). Even multiple choice is hardly ever pure memorization.
That sounds way more engaging than how I am taught it, don't know if it would make me like history but i would be more motivated to study it
What country do you live in? That might change how it's taught. Also depends on where you live regardless of country. Some schools and teachers are better than others and it's an unfortunate fact. I have noticed that advanced courses tend to be more interesting and engaging as well.
Italy, I really can't complain about my history teacher, she always tried to keep the class interested, i guess it just didn't work for me
I see. I mean some people just don't like some subjects regardless. It's like that here as well. It's impossible to force people to like it. Even though I liked the class, it's likely that others found it boring.
Sorry your history educations was bad. The study of history is vital. Learning from the past guides us to make better decisions in the present.
That's what I think I would like to hear more of, parallels between history and the present or future
I think that's really sad if that's how you were taught history, but I know that's how some schools do it. It's learning some of the most amazing human *stories*, chains of events, people's lives that changed the world.
Economics
French... I'll see myself out.
Geography
History as hobby? Yes History as subject? Hell no. I am not going to remember who did what at when for why and how in each of the X events
Physics and Maths
It's legit concerning that so many people like history class, considering how, at least in the USA, history class is more like fantasy story time instead of actually teaching it how it happened. I can't even count how many times I've been told that the native Americans accepted US rule, or that racism ended in 1968, or that native American and Hawaiian culture just faded away instead of it being brutally suppressed, or that the USA was the oldest, first, or only democracy.
humanities courses rock.
The humanities are super fun to study, I agree with you there
So you learn about humanity? That sounds cool!
basically. it covers culture, language, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, history, art, etc.
That's a lot of subjects associated with human history in general
yeah, it's kind of a blend of history and language with additional art/culture
Computer science! (doesn't count as science it's more like maths)
WHY IS IT CALLED COMPUTER SCIENCE IF IT'S MATH??!?!?!?!?!?!?
Math is a tool that science uses.
Not sure, even then there's a lot that isn't maths
Names for stuff is weird
I’m surprised English isn’t higher. It’s essentially just reading and writing which lets you be creative
Are you in the US or another English dominant country? At least for my district we rarely had any writing assignments that really let us express ourselves. And when we did it was just over what we learned from long gone and dusty author.
Ah, that makes sense. I’m American and for me English class was mostly about literature and analysis
My issue was that it was subjective. I can't analyze a poem when the author was clearly just horny. It was basically just "how to sound smart 101". I think we should put more emphasis on how fucking stupid authors actually are.
Sounds like a bad teacher. I think you’d like college literature classes, the ones I took encouraged critical analysis. Two things I remember that were really fun were an essay about how much I hated pastoral poetry and in one film class how much I hated the main character even though they were supposed to be sympathetic.
Drama
History and English.
History aka story time with violence
Science (or chemistry) Lmao is that a backhand to chemistry or something
I love history but I hate how schools teach history, as in Chile they just use the class to brainwash the youth with socialist shit and in the US they just teach useless stuff,. But those are the only countries I have lived in so I don't know about others.
yall dont like english???
depends a lot on the teacher tbh. also the source material
History and Modern Studies.
Break
Shop class
Is there somewhere that calls all science chemistry?
In high school where I am (Canada) the first two years (9 and 10) are broad in scope (science, math). But when you reach grades 11 and 12, it becomes differentiated (chemistry, precalculus etc).
Not American so I have no clue what's taught in science class, but my favorite subjects are physics and chemistry.
AUGUST 8TH????? I start on the 29th
Mine starts on September 3
Lucky
Mine started on 24th of february
Daang
Psychology, art, and I have a soft spot for physics
Chemistry is science too...
Art!
Music
You chose the right flair
Choir. I work in biotech now but science class in high school was THE WORST.
What made it worse? Constant homework? Crappy teacher? Just boring in general?
High school environment generally. I had good teachers and labs but high school was generally traumatic for me and school designed in the flow of constant daily lessons like that as opposed to 1-3x per week was just so hard to focus or maintain engagement. I got straight As but only by being a robot when it came to school.
Physics
August 8th? For me it’s September 14th 💀
In school I used to love german classes because once a week we had a really artsy teacher and at least once a week we would be doing theatre.
There may be a STEM bias on Reddit. Though that may just be a stereotype.
Spanish. Loved it. Took it for GCSE and A-level (UK school and 16-18 college qualifications for non-Brits). Loved it with every teacher that taught us. Then for some reason thought it would be a good idea to do *maths* at university... Oddly, I absolutely hated French though.
I only liked subjects with cool ass teachers that like teaching the subject as a passion and made me want to learn when i was going to school so that would be Art, Science and Geography that i enjoyed the most
High School Art, Choir, and Visual Communication were my favorite! Too bad I couldn't finish Viscom because of depression and quarantine. I still graduated by finishing my hardest class; Chemistry. I have both a diploma and a certificate.
Math because that’s what I excel at
BA in Art History. Has it done anything for me professionally? No. Would I do all over again? Hell yes, there's value in education for education's sake. There used to be value attributed to a classical education. Thanks STEM!
accounting
I dunno the English name but translated it’d be communication, representation, rhetoric
I am somewhat weird but both physics and history on the same level, however, math/English (in my case Polish) are not interesting at all to me so I choose smaller evil and went for extended physics and math not history and Polish
Physics
Well I’d be nice if I could pick both math and science. Not because I like them equally, but because what I do like, massively involves both. Physics. So math and science.
Computing :)
Orchestra and french
Computer science
tech
Used to be math & science ig. Now probably English because it's a second languages here so we didn't went too deep into it
Home time
German, with psychology and sociology close 2nd and 3rd
Philosophy & Chemistry
Drama and Media Studies. Was top of my class in both! - douche who now works in the entertainment industry.
English. We literally speak it. And, being creative in writing is fucking beautiful
Art
Math has always had the nicest teachers for me
Art
Chemistry is a type of science
Business and economics
As a PE teacher, I’m sorry this has the lowest votes. I’m passionate about my job, and I’m not American so I get paid well. A crap PE teacher can have such a negative impact on the physical health and fitness level of students once they graduate.
Art!!
Visual arts.
Band! or music I guess
PE, why is it last 😭 Reddit moment
computer science/robotics
Art
History
Chemistry is a science 🗿
Legal Studies & Psychology