Best friends? NAY
Senior Don Juan
You are trying to solve a math problem. You’re “teacher” showed you how to solve it, but they way he explained just doesn’t feel right…but hey it’s the teacher so you just believe him. You go home that night and try out one of the problems and you just can’t get the answer, or the answer to the next one or the next. Out of 30 problems you can maybe solve 1 or 2, probably just by accident though.
The next day you go back to class and question your teacher. He says you MUST not be doing what he was saying because you are getting wrong answers. Again you go home and maybe can answer 1 or 2 problems.......You get frustrated, yell, scream, break some stuff maybe. In all this excitement someone hears you and comes over. He asks you what’s wrong; you tell him you just can’t figure this out. This person shows you how to do it (which is not the way the teacher showed you) so you automatically tell him it was a fluke he doesn’t know anything. He does the next 20 and gets them all right, you finally believe him and try it out for your self….IT WORKS, FINALLY, you can do it now.
Day 3, test day, you finish the test in ½ the time of the next person and get all the answers right. Everyone looks at you in amazement and wonder. The teacher becomes a little suspicious.
The next day rolls by, you are feeling confident. You get the test back “F” in red ink across your paper…Your shoulders slump and your face contorts…..HOW did this happen? You go up to the teacher and demand and answer. He tells you that though you got all the problems right you didn’t do it how he asked. You go sit back down, it turns out everyone else got A’s but, they all had almost every problem wrong, but did it how the teacher asked so they got rewarded.
This pattern happens over and over; in almost all of your classes….It’s now your junior year, the SAT’s roll around you score a 1585. Colleges are now begging you to go to them. All the rest of the people score under 800, but none of them can figure out why, THEY where the ones getting A’s not you.
They all ask you what your “trick” was, but you didn’t have any. You just tell them that you learned how to correctly do everything, while the rest of them where learning a false way, by teachers who didn’t know what they where saying.
The next day you go back to class and question your teacher. He says you MUST not be doing what he was saying because you are getting wrong answers. Again you go home and maybe can answer 1 or 2 problems.......You get frustrated, yell, scream, break some stuff maybe. In all this excitement someone hears you and comes over. He asks you what’s wrong; you tell him you just can’t figure this out. This person shows you how to do it (which is not the way the teacher showed you) so you automatically tell him it was a fluke he doesn’t know anything. He does the next 20 and gets them all right, you finally believe him and try it out for your self….IT WORKS, FINALLY, you can do it now.
Day 3, test day, you finish the test in ½ the time of the next person and get all the answers right. Everyone looks at you in amazement and wonder. The teacher becomes a little suspicious.
The next day rolls by, you are feeling confident. You get the test back “F” in red ink across your paper…Your shoulders slump and your face contorts…..HOW did this happen? You go up to the teacher and demand and answer. He tells you that though you got all the problems right you didn’t do it how he asked. You go sit back down, it turns out everyone else got A’s but, they all had almost every problem wrong, but did it how the teacher asked so they got rewarded.
This pattern happens over and over; in almost all of your classes….It’s now your junior year, the SAT’s roll around you score a 1585. Colleges are now begging you to go to them. All the rest of the people score under 800, but none of them can figure out why, THEY where the ones getting A’s not you.
They all ask you what your “trick” was, but you didn’t have any. You just tell them that you learned how to correctly do everything, while the rest of them where learning a false way, by teachers who didn’t know what they where saying.