Can We Help?

[force addict]

Rope learning is the lesson the hangman teaches you...

hahahahha my teacher is a dumb-ass

[jono]

er pleasure.

big weekend hey Elf?
ive actually still not done it.
mum said she would help me, but shes been recovering all day

[Elf1]

Yeah I had a beer on Friday night!!!

[jono]

i did it Elf.
just need to clarify something with my last boss tommorow and i can send my appications.

[Elf1]

Excellent Jono, good luck buddy.

[AndyS]

The expression is "rote" learning not "rope" learning.

And there was me actually being impressed by her clever allusion - learning the ropes of the political arena...

[AlcoholicStalker]

That is the problem with the subject. So much of it is stuff you just have to commit to memory so you can use it later in a more interesting manner

Diagrams and pictures are always good, as well as stupid rhymes to remember things like the steps for passing legislation.

Are you using the structures and systems and processes and powers text books?

I always used different coloured pens when I was trying to study physics. My teacher for that was also very bad at teaching students who didnt understand his explinations. His solution was to explain it to you exactly the same way only you had to stand at the board while he did it.

[GIGS20]

Don't knock the teachers too much here guys, I know from experience, that there is often a concept that students just need to accept and remember rather than actually agree with or understand. This can happen for a variety of reasons, the most common is that it's just a concept that is, usually an arbitrarily determined thing often legal terms or long term standards in the IT world, they just are because somebody decided to call it that.....Sometimes students have to accept things because they simply won't understand the reasons why something is and then sometimes a concept is so simple and obvious to the teacher that they just can't think of a simpler way to explain it! yes...it happens, even to the best of us.

Of course there are also crappy teachers out there that think students who don't understand learn by having the same explanation more slowly (or more loudly) or just point students to a textbook or something. I'm not attempting to defend that, but I've often been stuck and had nothing more than.....that's just how it is OK?

[AlcoholicStalker]

Oh yeah I understand that GIGS20 but this particular teacher also spent half our lessons either showing us exactly the same thing every time with liquid nitrogen or telling us about his various medical issues.
If it wasnt for my maths teacher and my chem/biology teacher I would have failed physics along with half the class.

[GIGS20]

Physics teachers are particularly good at that, they tend to fall nicely in the category of "That's as simple as I can make it, I can't understand how you can't get it, I guess if I say it slower you'll get it"

[force addict]

And there was me actually being impressed by her clever allusion - learning the ropes of the political arena...

yeah i thought rope learning was quite a clever saying. haha obviously not...

[NeoGirl]

What do the words "wright" and "rite" mean?

[force addict]

rite: religious or other solemn ceremony or act
wright: a marker or builder

according to my dictionary

[fulvio sammut]

"Rite"means a ritual or standard course of conduct or manner of doing things. "Wright" means an occupation or work skill as in shipwright and wheelwright. It is an old fashion way of describing a trade.

There may be other definitions also. Check a dictionary and thesaurus.

[travelling_gerry]

What do the words "wright" and "rite" mean?

One of the brothers who first flew an aeroplane...the other in the incorrect spelling of the side the car where the driver sits.