What were your favourite and least favourite subjects in school?

[Victor]

most fav: history, geography, art lessons, literature
least fav: chemistry, physics, geometry, algebra - I know the basics of all of them which are enough for my life, but it went too far during the middle school, so I've started ignoring it

[Östsvensk]

Most: history, maybe religion.

Least: chemistry and math. I was mathematically challenged in school, but a work psychologist claimed my math skills were actually decent and that I only had a bad teacher in school. But nevertheless, I always hated math and if you can't enjoy it, you can't learn it.

[Cybele]

so I've started ignoring it

Problem solved!

[Victor]

Problem solved!

We had 2-5 system back then (2 the worst, dunno why not 1, and 5 the best), teachers used to put me 3 (mentioning it's 2 irl) so I'm passing because they realized I'm not gonna try to be better. I've ignored homework, but the only one who literally hated me for this was math teacher. Teachers generally sympathized me because I've been quite merry, charismatic and polite person for some 14 years old turning everything in a joke with a smile lol. Even those physics and chemistry ones, I had to come to not avoidable additional lessons and was doing everything perfectly, they were like damn, why don't you normally do the same?

[Cybele]

I was mathematically challenged in school, but a work psychologist claimed my math skills were actually decent and that I only had a bad teacher in school. But nevertheless, I always hated math and if you can't enjoy it, you can't learn it.

Yes, the teachers make a lot of difference. Math is not actually not that bad (once it's applied practically, for e.g. in statistics) and it's very useful. But I believe some children are not able to grasp easily some very abstract concepts.
And if one is stuck in a classroom and has to solve all these algebra and geometry problems, without much practical application, it makes it sort of tedious.

[Cybele]

We had 2-5 system back then (2 the worst, dunno why not 1, and 5 the best), teachers used to put me 3 (mentioning it's 2 irl) so I'm passing because they realized I'm not gonna try to be better.

It must of been frustrating for your teachers to see you cold do things perfectly when you wanted, but not really wanted to (despite maybe you had the potential). But is good that they were otherwise quite understanding.
We had a system with grades from 1-10, starting from middle school. At the end of the year, the arithmetic mean of grades, should have been at least 5, in order to pass the class. I once even received a grade of 2 in math so I had to struggle to keep afloat and get better grades the rest of the semester. Many teachers offered private payed lessons to struggling pupils ( and to prepare them before important final exams). In a sense they were not very tolerant. Because the idea was that, if you were struggling in a subject, you could take private lessons from them, and pass the class.

I've ignored homework, but the only one who literally hated me for this was math teacher. Teachers generally sympathized me because I've been quite merry, charismatic and polite person for some 14 years old turning everything in a joke with a smile lol. Even those physics and chemistry ones, I had to come to not avoidable additional lessons and was doing everything perfectly, they were like damn, why don't you normally do the same?

Wish I could charm and persuade my teachers too, but I didn't had what it takes. At most, I could make them tolerate the fact I was being late in their class sometimes.
About homework, we had teachers that would check our notebooks and it was impossible to skip not having a homework. Unless one had a good reason. But what one could do, was to copy the homework from somebody else and just change some details.

[Cybele]

double

[Victor]

It must of been frustrating for your teachers to see you cold do things perfectly when you wanted, but not really wanted to (despite maybe you had the potential). But is good that they were otherwise quite understanding.
We had a system with grades from 1-10, starting from middle school. At the end of the year, the arithmetic mean of grades, should have been at least 5, in order to pass the class. I once even received a grade of 2 in math so I had to struggle to keep afloat and get better grades afterwards. Many teachers offered private payed lessons to struggling pupils. In a sense they were not very tolerant. Because the idea was that, if you were struggling in a subject, you could take private lessons from them, and pass the class.


Wish I could charm and persuade my teachers too, but I didn't had what it takes. At most, I could make them tolerate the fact I was being late in their class sometimes.
About homework, we had teachers that would check our notebooks and it was impossible to skip not having a homework. Unless one had a good reason. But what one could do, was to copy the homework from somebody else and just change some details.

I was quite independent back then, my father was busy working for two as my mother had health issues, I've been helping, too, so I didn't act like some immature kid, but had some kind of preferences over spending time with something I considered nonsense (at the same time realizing there won't be consequences), my father didn't care much about this, too.

I still have weird dreams about school, like it's again school and some maths lessons and like one more year of study is needed and I'm convincing people around that I've finished school some 20+ years ago Our school had five floors and I dream all of them detailed, like walking by the stairs, entering the classrooms etc.

[Scar95]

Useless:
geography - terms that you forget the next day unless you're interested and self-studying at home
painting, music and anything artistic - self-explained
french - absolutely useless unless you're self learning. Every hour was a pain as I had to make mental connections and take a shot in the dark about how a verb is conjugated based on an example and random guess what words mean.
english - everyone knows english. USELESS.


Best:

sport - self-explained
math
physics
history

[Cybele]

I was quite independent back then, my father was busy working for two as my mother had health issues, I've been helping, too, so I didn't act like some immature kid, but had some kind of preferences over spending time with something I considered nonsense (at the same time realizing there won't be consequences), my father didn't care much about this, too.

It makes sense. That's the thing with school, sometimes external problems, unfortunately do affect the amount of time a child can invest into studying.
Given the circumstances, prioritizing what was considered the most important, unlike fixating on things that you didn't make much use of later on, was the best choice. Generally a base of knowledge is good, but we barley use all the info accumulated in school later on in life, anyway. There are educational systems, if I'm not mistaken where grades don't exist and this enables a child to just concentrate early on his/ her attention and time into whatever subject he/she enjoys, while still having basic knowledge of a variety of things.
I had quite understand parents too. When I was getting a bad grade, I preferred to tell my father first. My mother would get mad, but she never beat me up for a bad grade.

I still have weird dreams about school, like it's again school and some maths lessons and like one more year of study is needed and I'm convincing people around that I've finished school some 20+ years ago Our school had five floors and I dream all of them detailed, like walking by the stairs, entering the classrooms etc.

Sounds like a nightmare haha. And actually I've heard a few people I've interacted with saying similar things about dreaming being again in school, having exams, and so on. Like what's going on?! Maybe just stress, which makes all these memories related to being in school, surface from subconscious. Or a way, in which the brain decides to torture one, during sleep.
I have similar dream about the school building (studied there for 12 years) sometimes I dream it looks grayer and spookier that it was in reality. Otherwise it's the same place but a bit different with added architectural parts. And I have dialogues with colleagues and so on.