thank a teacher?

Halo299 · Post by **Halo299** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 7:11 pm

So the night before last I was having sex with my GF.

She was in front of me with her back to me. And she was still wearing a t-shirt that said, on the back “if you can read this; thank a teacher”

I thought of a lot of ways that, that saying was true, but I don’t think that the things I was thinking had very much to do with what my K-2 teachers were going for when they were teaching me to read.

I thought it was funny at the time, and when I told my GF about it after word she got a good laugh too.

Just thought I’d share

-halo

Tha_Pig · Post by **Tha_Pig** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 7:24 pm

I learnt to read by myself, but my grandmother was the first to show me the letters (I figured out how to put them together by myself)

MY grandmother was a retired teacher. So I guess I have a teacher to thanks for my reading abilities.

But the PASSION for reading came from my mom, who used to read Poe’s tales to me when I was little.

Aeridus · Post by **Aeridus** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 7:47 pm

I've had a "teacher" who taught me how to cyber well... certainly not the school kind of teacher.

Tellner · Post by **Tellner** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 1:50 am

I learned in kindergarten.
My wife learned when she was three via her brother and a pile of comic books on a long car trip.

Honor · Post by **Honor** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:11 am

Being my parents first spawn, they were all fired up about the good parent thing, and bought me an encyclopedia set. Then, sensing I might need to start a little slower, they got me some of those children's book clubs, where they send you books every month... Dr. Seuss, Bernstein Bears, that kind of stuff. I was reading well enough to use tonal inflections for punctuation long before I ever set foot in kindergarten.

And, yes... The mental image with the tee shirt is wicked funny.

Squidflakes · Post by **Squidflakes** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 10:26 am

sooo, you were thanking her with cock?

Swordsman3003 · Post by **Swordsman3003** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 10:55 am

I taught myself to read at about three, or so I hear. I can't really remember, I just hear the stories.

RavenxDrake · Post by **RavenxDrake** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 11:45 am

Heh... yeah, I was reading well before I got into kindergarten too... I still remember my first day.

8am INtroductions of the people I'm going to grow to hate in less than 10 years time. Some already annoy me.

10am Play with Blocks. Great, I can do this at home.

12pm Lunch. Great, I get better food at home.

1pm Time to actually learn! ... Except I already Know this crap. ABC's and 2 plus 2 is four?

1:15pm Tell Teacher "Since I already know all this, can I move up a grade?" Teacher tells me "No. You have to graduate kindergarten before you can move up." "So I have to go through the whole year before I can start learning? That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard."

1:20 Make friends with the Recpetionist outside the principals office. I've got a feeling I'm going to be here alot.

1:30 Back to class. Forced to appologise. "No, Ma'am, I didn't say you were stupid. I said that making stay here where I'm not learning is stupid. Why do I have to do ABC's again because of all these other dumb kids don't know 'em yet."

1:32 In principal's office waiting for parents. This is going to be a long 13 years....

E~Man · Post by **E~Man** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 4:22 pm

RavenxDrake...that cracked me up.

Did you ever get in trouble for pointing out a teachers mistake (I did and to make it worse proved my point by with documentation...I quickly learned not to do that again).

There is nothing like the...joy of knowing more about the subject matter than the teacher or having to slow down for the slow/don't-care kids in the class.

Lowky · Post by **Lowky** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 5:17 pm

E~Man wrote:
There is nothing like the...joy of knowing more about the subject matter than the teacher or having to slow down for the slow/don't-care kids in the class.

You mean like reading and finishing the Scarlet letter in class in about 3 days time, while the rest of the class takes about 3 weeks to read the first four chapters, then the teacher decides to make the class read aloud and you have no clue where they are when they call on you, as you are almost through reading it a second time? Yeah always read faster/more advanced than my class mates, always seemed like the dummy for not knowing where they were at when forced to read aloud.

Swordsman3003 · Post by **Swordsman3003** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 5:36 pm

Oh yeah, happened to me all the time.

Hey, have you guys noticed that a lot of the forum members here, when they describe the way the live, describe people with fairly high IQs?

Indigo Violent · Post by **Indigo Violent** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 5:40 pm

The first time I read "A Wrinkle In Time" I was about nine. Zipped through it ahead of the rest of my class. Then we read it again in grade seven. And it was offered as an option for elective reading in grade nine.
It's a good book and all but if it's suitable for kids in grade four to study, shouldn't we have moved on slightly by age fifteen?

Aeridus · Post by **Aeridus** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 8:21 pm

swordsman3003 wrote:Oh yeah, happened to me all the time.

Hey, have you guys noticed that a lot of the forum members here, when they describe the way they live, describe people with fairly high IQs?

I think you're right! Maybe it's because only people with truly high intelligence fully appreciate Ghastly's humor.

Me, I have an IQ a bit higher than 140, not sure exactly how high it is.

As for my regular learning, I was well ahead of everyone and got to go to a special governor's high school.

Very fun that was. I may not be the smartest person ever but I'm extremely good at picking out patterns and such.

RavenxDrake · Post by **RavenxDrake** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 8:37 pm

While intelligence is hardly a pre-requisite for getting on the internet anymore, certain locations seem to attract certain types of people. I think that the demographic of folks who can read and enjoy an erotic themed comic and then move on to post about it in a mature and relatively serious way (rather than enjoying it as a "guilty pleasure" and never every admiting they like it, or enjoining the "Lol, bewbies" gradeschool philosophy) takes a certain kind of frame of mind. It just so happens that that frame is best hung on those with above average intellect(or at least intellectual capicity).

As for pointing things out to teachers, Yes. All the time. I never got tired of it. Pointing out the falicy inherent in everything from the Pilgrims to Columbus Day to the Civil War. The better teachers just learned to suck it up and deal with it... they were relatively few in number.

Halo299 · Post by **Halo299** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 8:37 pm

i was a very smart kid in elementry school. so smart in fact that i never bothered to learn how to study, take notes, or put effort into anything. All i had to do was look at a test and As just rolled my way

this got me in a lot of trouble when i made it to high school. and i quickly became known as a slacker and my drades suffered badly.

i have always tested high on IQ test and such though.

for all the good it does me.

-halo

TellTaleHeart · Post by **TellTaleHeart** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 9:51 pm

I learned how to read before I was born, however, the only words I knew were 'made', 'in', and 'Taiwan'.

Sword, I can assure you Ghastly's comic appeals to the unintelligent as well. I know a fair number of people who read the comic and don't post on the forum because they're not sure what a forum is. Some of them probably think it's a sports venue and the two from London, Ontario think it's a strip club. It just goes to show that Ghastly's humour has a wide appeal.

I really hope those friends don't read the comic and then go to the strip club immediately afterwards. Those poor dancers won't know what hit them.

Gealachtine · Post by **Gealachtine** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 1:29 am

My parents are avid readers and taught me how to read around 2 or 3yrs old. My mother always told me I'm too smart for my own good.

My average yearly book "consumption" is around 200 -300, most people I know don't read a 10th of that. The folks got me into the habit of reading several books at a time. One for each room of the house almost. I start having withdrawls if I don't have any new books around.

Too bad I'm not as well versed in mathematics - that would've made my school life a lot easier. (I probably would've acheived my degree too...all I had left was math and a foriegn language.)

I was only a trouble maker with the crappy teachers in high school, cussed one out and wasn't allowed to take another Grammar course (she was the only English mechanics teacher.) It was fine by me, I had to take a Uni by-mail course on Mythology instead, that was awesome. Better than sitting through another torturous class with Lola, the drunken bitch teacher from hell, who had proclaimed me too stupid to learn.

Funny thing, I aced all of my college English courses with no problems.

Lowky · Post by **Lowky** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 4:08 am

Halo299 wrote:i was a very smart kid in elementry school. so smart in fact that i never bothered to learn how to study, take notes, or put effort into anything. All i had to do was look at a test and As just rolled my way

this got me in a lot of trouble when i made it to high school. and i quickly became known as a slacker and my drades suffered badly.

i have always tested high on IQ test and such though.

for all the good it does me.

-halo

That caught up to me in college. Had almost zero study skills. Only classes in High School, I even recall having homework that I had to do/finish at home were math and German. And half the time I was finishing the german homework in class the next morning before going over it/turning it in.

Lowky · Post by **Lowky** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 4:13 am

Indigo Violent wrote:The first time I read "A Wrinkle In Time" I was about nine. Zipped through it ahead of the rest of my class. Then we read it again in grade seven. And it was offered as an option for elective reading in grade nine.
It's a good book and all but if it's suitable for kids in grade four to study, shouldn't we have moved on slightly by age fifteen?

I think I was in 4th grade when I read Frankenstein. Librarian didn't want to let me check it out. Only way she did was to ask that I give her a book report on it to prove that I had actually read it, as she thought it way beyond my reading level and that I would grow bored. turned in the book and book report 1 week later. After that she actually helped me find books that I would enjoy and let me check out whatever I wanted. Best thing that happened school wise with reading was in sixth grade they split the reading between the two classes. Those that were where they should be or more advanced switched to one class and those that were average to subpar went to the other. I still was ahead of most of my other sixth graders on reading, but at least I wasn't stuck with reading assignments for people who were way behind.

Aeridus · Post by **Aeridus** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 4:24 am

In elementary school they actually had a reading program for advanced readers... the more high level books you read, the higher rank you attained. Or something like that.