Childhood Preferences
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Topic: Childhood Preferences
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Subject: Childhood Preferences
Date Posted: May 25 2011 at 14:50
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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. " |
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: May 25 2011 at 14:51
| Science and math, easily, and probably fairly obvious for those who know me. |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: May 25 2011 at 14:51
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Always the arts for me.
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Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: May 25 2011 at 14:56
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History, geography and biology: the dissection of fishes is always a "hit" with children. |
Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: May 25 2011 at 14:57
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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. ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: May 25 2011 at 15:04
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I was more interested in Literature, History, Theology, etc. But I was a pretty good student until I discovered women.. Iván ------------- 
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: May 25 2011 at 15:09
lol, for me substitute beer for women, but yeah. |
Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: May 25 2011 at 15:15
| Books here. Jules Verne, Alexandre Dumas, the Bible, Jack London, Kipling, ETA Hoffmann, Michel Zevaco, James Cook, soviet adventure & war novels, etc. And especially copious amounts of tales from all over the world - Arab, Persian, Central Asian, African, Balkan, Chinese, the Grimm brothers, etc. |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: May 25 2011 at 15:34
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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... |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: May 25 2011 at 15:40
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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. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: May 25 2011 at 15:41
The arts no doubt. Except I do enjoy social studies. I am still a child, btw.  ------------- http://blindpoetrecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: May 25 2011 at 15:41
| I liked science, math, english, art, music, and computers. I guess I was pretty evenly split? |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: May 25 2011 at 15:42
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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?
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Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: May 25 2011 at 15:44
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I was an avid fiction reader as well and I still am but the books are much more existentialist and surreal. Although I did enjoy 1984 at a particularly young age, 5th grade. ------------- http://blindpoetrecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: May 25 2011 at 15:48
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... |
Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: May 25 2011 at 15:50
It's hard to remember if I really preferred any over the others but I'll vote arts anyways because my dream back then was to become an author.
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: May 25 2011 at 15:51
It's more about you as you were before being a teenager. Pat also pointed that out. |
Posted By: Proletariat
Date Posted: May 25 2011 at 17:13
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Literature, history, geography etc ------------- who hiccuped endlessly trying to giggle but wound up with a sob |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: May 25 2011 at 18:00
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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 ... ------------- What? |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: May 25 2011 at 18:10
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5th Grade??? Wiki tells me that's 10-11 year-olds... I was reading Edgar Rice Burroughs and H G Wells then, but not much else aside from DC & Marvel comics and an ancient set of The Children's Encyclopedia by Arthur Mee that I used to sit and read for hours on end. ------------- What? |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: May 25 2011 at 23:02
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A little bit of everything. I was never well defined in my likes, which ended up bringing problems when time came to choose a career... ------------- 
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: May 26 2011 at 02:28
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Arts. I've always loved music, and though I guess I disliked the structure of art classes, I like visual art. And I do like and respect drama a lot. I hated chemistry in school and no doubt would have hated physics if I had to take it. Too abstract. Biology I liked. Zoology I liked most. Animals. There right there, easy to visualize and know. Ecosystems are easy to visualize. Atoms, forces, chemical structures...not so much. Now, I can appreciate them somewhat, but I can't say I like them or really care about the research that goes into them, except for it's practical purposes. I guess that makes me like 99% of the world then in that respect. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: May 26 2011 at 02:47
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A slight preference for science and maths. ------------- 
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: May 26 2011 at 03:25
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I am quite eclectic when it comes to wisdom i know stuff from many different topics, that is why I do it so well in 5 oit out of 6 Trvial Pursuit I can answer quite well on all the topics exept math, were i suck donky balls.
I can much about geographie, history, sports, arts and literature, endertainment, science and nature -------------  
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: May 26 2011 at 03:37
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: May 26 2011 at 05:18
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Personally, the sciences went right over my head - just couldn't get them (still can't, to be honest - my brain must work in a different manner), all except for mathematics, where I appear for some reason to have a natural aptitude.
No, my real loves at school were Art, Drama, English Literature - lessons I actually looked forward to  ------------- 
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: May 26 2011 at 08:24
I first read Lord of the Rings then. It's not that early of an age for real books. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: May 26 2011 at 09:54
No it isn't, (the "???" was my ignorance of American "grade" ages, not exclamation of the age itself  ), I'm sure lots of 10 & 11 year olds read lots of real books, as I said, I wasn't a reader at that age, I read the Hobbit in my first tyear of high school but just didn't like it enough to want to read LotR.------------- What? |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: May 26 2011 at 09:56
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I misunderstood the ??? I really enjoyed the Hobbit when I first read it. Now that I've read it since then I realize how different it is from LotR. It's really a book to read when you're a child. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Proletariat
Date Posted: May 26 2011 at 16:09
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5th grade I was reading LotR, Call of the Wild... books that I can still read that are literary and worth while. but also Redwall and Hardy Boys and things that are not worth going back to at all. ------------- who hiccuped endlessly trying to giggle but wound up with a sob |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: May 26 2011 at 16:44
^ I loved Call Of The Wild when I was in Junior School, and Emil and the Detectives and Mary Norton's Borrowers books. Oh dear, it seems I was more of a reader than I remember.  ...  ... Nah, I didn't get seriously into books until I was 15 or 16, from then on I would be reading several books a week up until fairly recently.------------- What? |
Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: May 26 2011 at 20:23
| Although I work in the technical field, my interest was always music and literature... as a child and now. |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: May 27 2011 at 11:45
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I had already read Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky by age 11.... Of course when I read it again about 10 years later it was SO much better....  -------------
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Posted By: Alitare
Date Posted: May 27 2011 at 11:48
| I didn't start reading 'real' books until high school, where I was first introduced to Animal Farm. |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: May 27 2011 at 12:02
Same here! Fifth grade. But I don't think I've missed anything by reading it so early. Karamazov Brothers, now that's different...
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