Math I didn't enjoy in school at all and purposely slacked off. Ended up in Math 10 Daily and eventually Math 11 Essentials (Dummy math in Canada). I liked the art classes, PE, lunch, and the end of the day. Their was not much in school I liked. The entire thing was a negative experience.
Anyway I still dislike math and discovered that shortly after graduation I'm not the only one who decided to try with effort to not do math. My friends and I refuse math and use calculators or wait for one of us in the group who doesn't to do the math. Even when I do math to program I have the calculator open. Even easy things like 8 X 7 I do on the calculator cause I'd rather not waste the front stage thinking on small things while I'm trying to balance what I'm doing and all the thoughts in the back-brain.
A final thing about school I disliked. I was squeezed through cracks by teachers, had fake letters written by my parents, and eventually sat on my ass and was babied all the way through school until I was graduated. Where I come from you don't try to graduate. It looks too bad for 'em so they just keep sqeezin' ya through to the next year and put ya in classes even if ya failed the prereq the year before - they'd rarely check and rarely give a shit.
Now where most would love a system to get you through there were horrible effects. No teacher took the time to explain anything to me, I don't feel I actually learned that much, I forgot most stuff during summer break anyway except for basic stuff. But anyway from being squeezed through I'm a slacker in Uni with no skills from my entire 12 grads of schooling and have slim chance to "find a path" like most people. Though thats just how it feels to me. My sister bugs me saying I'm smart so maybe I've just perceived the entire this way and I'm just not aware of the skills I learned in grads K - 12.
Aldous Huxley I think is quoted saying he learned more a few hours high on Peyote or Mescaline then he did 4 years in Harvard. I haven't been to Harvard, but damn here's right.
