Churchill repeating grades (and a speech impediment), Bach was told he was hopeless as a composer, Einstein failing high school math, etc...why? I have my answer, but I want to see what YOU have to say.
2007-01-29 07:20:03 · 10 answers · asked by fslcaptain737 4 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Because the instructors they had already had a set rank and file system, and they were outside of the rank and file, didn't matter that they excelled or were below par.
2007-01-29 07:28:44 · answer #1 · answered by Amy V 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The school system is designed for dummies. Intelligent kids are ridiculed, held back and made to conform. Few teachers are at the top of their field, and none are prepared to admit a student might know more than they do.
Classes are incredibly boring and unimaginative. The material is bashed into the students head by rote, and thinking outside the box is forbidden.
Yeah, I despised school, but I passed every class because I remembered everything I read. The teachers hated me because I never took notes or handed in assignments but I aced every exam.
The education system sucked then, and it's worse now. Teachers still try to teach information, instead of information management. Kids have more to learn than ever before, but the curriculum is falling farther behind.
2007-01-29 15:50:07 · answer #2 · answered by imillard35 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I personally know a kid who was failing miserably in school. Then he took an IQ test. He was a genius. His IQ was in the 180s range. Turned out his teachers were teaching him wrong.
One reason is that school isn't really about smartness. It's more about organization. Many people who are geniuses fail subjects because they didn't turn in homework or like memorization. School is just memorization. How many kids do you think really understand the topic? They just memorize definitions. I know my teachers make us do that.
Or another reason could be stress. So much stress, they couldn't concentrate on their favourite subject. Perhaps they were so busy on other subjects, and they knew they were good at that one, so they didn't work on it. But because they didn't work on it, they failed. When they grew up, they didn't have to focus on the subjects they hated. They could now focus on their favourite subject.
It could also be because the teachers were idiots. I remember one of my old teachers could never answer any of the questions I asked. She just said, "Um...well...why don't you research it and tell us the answer."
Yeah right.
Maybe they weren't interested at first. Doing horribly in a subject can really make you determined. Maybe failing set off this determination to prove that they WERE good in that field.
It could also be that they just didn't try. They knew they were better than everyone else at it and saw no point in studying or putting any effort into it.
2007-01-29 15:31:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well I reckon that its because they were just so advanced in their thinking that when faced with the way school taught the subject... they couldn't focus because their minds were already thinking beyond what they had too. Think of any subject you were bored with at school... usually it was because you already knew what was going on and had to wait for it to be explained to people who weren't quite sure... so if you are a genius, your'e not exactly gonna feel motivated to do well at a subject when you're already more advanced than the teacher!!!!!!!!!
2007-01-29 15:42:08 · answer #4 · answered by tarzanatvw 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is usually one of two things.
1. They were bored with the subject.
2. They learned from their mistakes.
Either way they did not give up and that is the best point of all.
2007-01-29 15:39:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they were limited in the classroom and had to think inside the box. They were able to think outside the box which intimidates faculty. They also became bored as they wanted to soar but in class they could only creep.
2007-01-29 15:32:56 · answer #6 · answered by thefinalresult 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
School isnt really about learning, its more about memorizing certain things by rote in a certain way. There is no room for nonconformity, or different ways, etc
2007-01-29 15:38:59 · answer #7 · answered by darchangel_3 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
because the teacher failed to see their brilliance, probably because they surpassed their teacher and the teacher could not understand their for it must be wrong, a shame when you think about it
2007-01-29 18:25:08 · answer #8 · answered by ponitail 55 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the teachers were uneducated in dealing with gifted pupils....in other words the students r above them intellectual and therefore bored
2007-01-29 15:40:08 · answer #9 · answered by STORMY K 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
because they were being told what to do.
they werent doing what they wanted.
they were born to teach not to learn.
2007-01-29 15:32:07 · answer #10 · answered by missJMAC 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋