Childhood Preferences - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Simple question to settle a curiosity of mine in a highly scientific manner. Voting is for you as a child please remember.

I was much more interested in the sciences as a child. Eventually schooling made them unbearably boring and took all of the creativity and discovery out of them. I have clearly returned to them later in life.

"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "

Always the arts for me.

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I have to say reading, although I was also very interested in science. In first grade I wanted to be chemist, although later I changed my mind when I realized what it was chemists actually did. :P

Formaldehyde always made me sick so I couldn't do much of the biology stuff.

Edited by Henry Plainview - May 25 2011 at 14:58

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Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

I was more interested in Literature, History, Theology, etc.

But I was a pretty good student until I discovered women..

Iván

lol, for me substitute beer for women, but yeah.

The arts, I suppose, inlcuding history. But I did enjoy cutting up cats and pigs in Biology.

...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...

The arts no doubt. Except I do enjoy social studies. I am still a child, btw.

I think most of us liked just about everything. I was a voracious reader of fiction back then. But surely there was a preference in some direction?

"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "

Equality 7-2521 wrote:

By child I had meant pre-high school, pre-teenage years. I quite enjoyed that also, but I didn't personally have the opportunity until high school.

I did dissect a gold fish that my dad had won for me at a carnival after the fish died (due to an experiment itself of mine), but that wasn't exactly a supervised activity.

Gotcha. It would still be the Arts. I still have the weathered and worn copy of Bulfinch's Mythology which I devoured in 5th grade (loved Norse and Greek myth as well as the Arthurian cycle at the time).

We cut up frogs in 7th grade and fetal pigs in 8th, which in Catholic school would still be considered "grade school".

...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...

The Truth wrote:

The arts no doubt. Except I do enjoy social studies. I am still a child, btw.

It's more about you as you were before being a teenager. Pat also pointed that out.

Science, maths and drawing. Through most of my school and college years I had problems with words, but numbers I could understand - they made sense to me so science was something I could simply do because it was just applied maths (except biology, which I didn't care too much for).

I guess it was the technical aspects that attracted me to drawing, I wasn't much of a painter back then, (I came 2nd in a painting competition when I was 8, the boy who won first prize had just coloured-in one of my discarded drawings... that amused me at the time and it still does 46 years later), I certainly was not a reader (I didn't become a voracious [great word] reader that until I was a teenager) and I hated having to write anything, but I loved to draw structure and spaces between things - I remember a teacher once chastised me for using a ruler, set-square, compasses and worse of all, an eraser in an art lesson -to me it seemed silly not to. I could have become a draughtsman in later life if I hadn't discovered you could mess around with electronics and get paid for it, but I was just too messy and scruffy to work in a drawing office - what was supposed to be a pristine technical drawing looked more like a charcoal sketch by the time I was finished with it ...

Edited by Dean - May 25 2011 at 18:01

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Poll Question: Which subject did you enjoy more as a child?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
The Sciences (Math, Bio, Chem, Geography, etc.)	10	[34.48%]
The Arts (Music, Literature, Painting, etc.)	19	[65.52%]
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