Vic_B_Learning

= Education = I, unfortunately, thank to some cicumstances, still live in a small city what absolutely not for me, my ambitions and graduating from the Kalmyk State University this June, thank goodness. I reckon our university needs developments. Professors are too indulgent to students and in general our system is too tolerant. Students really realize it and gladly use it, I can say for myself, for instance, unfortunately. I tend to more tough education. Because students` behavior to their study is so impudent that the university graduates non-qualified specialists. This is more frigtening than low scholarships. To my opinion they should pay more attention to rise the level of education, because it`s sad to hear from professors about low level of knowledge of their students. There must be out of the question to offer or to take or to aquire bribes for credits, exams, because it does exist. University should rule students with a rod of iron. So, there will be a result.

= The A-Z of Learning = I`ve just boosted my voc with some new for me words. There they are: what concerns ** marks ** and ** grades **, the first one means figures and th 2d one applies to letters
 * a recess ** which means holidays in american english
 * a crash course ** - a accelerated training course
 * a refresher course ** - a short course reviewing or updating previous studies or training connected with one’s profession

WE ALL HAVE GENIUS WITHIN US...
I`m very interested in human intelligence, brain work, abilities and everything what connected with it. Of course, I watched Rain Man, remarkable film. The desease of the main character was as a great uniqueness as a burden. For instance, he has brilliant memory which is imensely useful but he couldn`t take care of himself. Bill Gates has people in his corporation which suffer from that desease. Because they have outstanding memory and are able to calculate big sums. All of them have different talents. Autistic savants or idiot savants have no imagination their perception is limited. So, if scientists will develop their methods by switching off concious part of brain of healthy people there will be a revolution in many spheres of activity. I can tell something about myself. I`m a sort of ambidexter, that`s to say a person who use both hands fluently. So, I use my left hand in writing but I draw with my right hand. But at school I get taught to use my right hand in writing and I think there were some consequences judging by my observations. I began to memorize figures very fast, for example, I can memorize a telephone number from the 1st time, so I have good memory, especially for figures. But, I used to draw very well earlier and since I`ve taught to use right hand my paintings are much worse than earlier. I`ve also noticed that sometimes while reading some text or sentence I can read it 2 or even 3 times until I figure it out. I haven`t got a clue what it`s connected with.

What life skills should you learn at school?
I really really glad that I finished school № 17. I studied at physico-mathematical class. We had good teachers in general but two of them are really gave us not only knowledge of the subjects but taught us something which we don`t forget in our real life. They were teachers of Maths and English and my favourite teachers. In a social network we have a society of the pupils of our teacher of maths. It`s really nostalgic to remember all school moments, all lessons... We have a discussing theme there of all wise quotes of the teacher. I often remeber some of them: `When we can - we don`t want, when we`ll want - we won`t be able`, that concerned our lazyness and wasting our better time, so, when we can study we don`t do this properly, when we really will want it we, unfortunately, won`t have an opportunity or something and that`ll be too late. When we couldn`t manage with some exercise or we didn`t have time or just were too lazy trying to think we told her `I just can`t do this` and she answered `You just don`t want to mean it`. And that`s really true, if a person really wants something, really hard-working he will acheive it by all means. I got added evidence that she was right. There will be no space to describe all the useful-for-life moments. Also, at school we had a phycologist who worked with us, we made some tests and got known something new about ourselves. We were hold discussions about sex education, alcohol and drug awareness, first aid, DIY and woodwork (we had mandatory subjects). In general, I really thank to my teachers at school, especially English and Maths teachers who layed out moral principles and whom I keep in touch with.