Posted by Toph on February 20, 2005, at 15:57:11
In reply to Re: school » Toph, posted by alexandra_k on February 20, 2005, at 13:12:08
>> alex, what percentage of your superior (in my opinion) intellect do you suppose is attributable to fortunate genes, fine teachers, or hard work?
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...There is one thing that I will always be thankful to my mother for: she taught me to read. She read to me ever since I can remember and she would read me simple kids books too and move her finger along the page to the word she was reading. I was reading by 4 and that is all thanks to her.
> And once you can read you just need to be thrown the odd book every now and then...
> But I did go to a pretty good (pretty small) school for the first 4 years. That gave me a good head start on the public school system. (Bout 2 or 3 years worth to tell you the truth)...So my quess is you're saying 30%, 30%, 40%?
About the reading part, I envy you so. I never read well. I hated reading out loud then and now. If ever I had ADD it was reading. My step-daughter devours books. She read them all night while I'm lucky to get through a chapter before I conk out. I did well in university by going to every class and taking notes. Imagine my horror when the first book assigned freshman year was Milton's Paradise Lost written in prehistoric english. Maybe I'm dyslexic. Everybody thinks my thinking is backwards anyway.
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