Discussion»Statements»Rosie's Corner» Do those "bad boys" who disrupt the class, sass the teacher, get sent to the Principal's office ever amount to anything? How?
I had a few students like that. I would take them aside and would ask them "You're bored, aren't you?" Usually the answer was yes. I learned how to read faces over time starting in the Navy and I could tell if they were intelligent. I then told them they reminded of me except that I learned early on that acting up will get them nowhere. Usually they settled down and became good students. I also had a few for which there was no hope. Many of them are probably in jail or dead by now.
Wow! From the horse's mouth so to speak Ele. Your personal experience trumps (apologies but it is a good word) any opining or conjecturing. It was kind of you to take them aside and counsel them. I'm glad to learn that some of them took you seriously. Were you really that boy or did you just tell them that? Thank you for your first-person account of your real-world experience and Happy Saturday! :)
I really was that way. My nick-name was Eddie. I was the 'Eddie Hascal' (From 'Leave it to Beaver') of the school...sneaky, but polite. I never got caught doing anything wrong.
So it is verrrrrrry interesssssssting (from Laugh-In days) that you would become a scientist. The scientific method is meticulous and doesn't allow for fooling around or being smart-alecky or disruptive or LIE about results. Which reminds me when a scientific breakthrough is ostensibly made somewhere don't teams around the world have to be able to replicate it for authenticity? I LOVE that. You might know that if I were intelligent enough I would have LOVED to be a quantum physicist. But alas there's too much needed in the way of brain matter which I lack. I know my limitations. Maybe in another life though. Anything is possible in science. There are always discoveries being made. Some small some momentous! What is/was the most exciting thing in your professional life that you discovered/uncovered/experienced? If that's too nosy just ignore me! :)
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