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What did you learn earlier than you should have?

8 years ago by aj0690 with 13 comments

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  • Wenjarich (edited 8 years ago)
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    Algebra.

    My mom is a high school maths teacher and she taught me the concept of algebra at a young age. This stuck out to me because I had a teacher in preparatory school who marked me wrong because I didn't use the method he showed us but instead I used algebra. The question was one of those "if Jane gets an amount of pocket money and her Margret sister gets double, and they get a total of R500 combined then how much money does Jane get?" I think we were just supposed to guess or something, I can't remember the method he wanted me to use but algebra was much much simpler. It's the one of the few times I saw my mother get pissed at one of my teacher hahaha

  • frohawk
    +3

    Sex.

    That is to say, I learned about it in the wrong context.

    I feel like you can teach kids a lot of things, it's just a matter what of subjects you introduce to a kid first and how nuanced they are.

  • Traveler
    +2

    Responsibility.

    I married and had a child early in life - only then did I learn what a huge responsibility I had shouldered, and how it meant that carefree, impetuous youth was gone forever.

  • ColonBowel
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    Awareness of my own death. Most late adolescent and young adults have this general feeling that they will either live for forever or that their personal death is way to far in the future to contemplate seriously. I was in war at 20 y/o and had to seriously come to terms with my own death much earlier than most. Now I have a generally lack fear of death. I don't want to die (no suicidal thoughts at all), but I wouldn't mind it much.

    • Appaloosa
      +4

      I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

      Woody Allen

  • kdawson
    +1

    Poverty, disease, disability.