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Things I would have liked to have Learned at School
October 26 2016
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RHP User
8 years ago
Ive often wished I'd persisted with learning the guitar...or the piano would've been nice too. My sister stuck with her lessons for quite a while, but i was a bit impatient and preferred fishing, reading or playing sports. However, in recent times I've thought more about having some proper singing lessons...I'm not afraid to sing and I think I have a decent and deep voice...it just needs some training. I find it relaxing and satisfying and I would like to do it just for myself.
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Forus1234
8 years ago
A retired coal miner 60 years old, completed his degree with me. For over 3 years he sat in our classes & students helped him where needed. He was 1 of 5 of us, out of the original 65 to graduate. His wife owns a business in this field & he wanted to help her out. I've just recently heard of hiim passing on after all these years. 😥 🎤 music- never had any tuition apart from singing lessons (learning the breathing), to help a family member in back up. There are an assortment of instruments & players in our house, they are actually teaching me now! (Mrs F)
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RHP User
8 years ago
In hindsight, I wish I had chosen tech drawing and woodwork. You got to play with the boys in those classes. Fucked if I know why I chose the tafe accounting course. Went for two classes then jogged for the rest of the year. How I passed I will never know but there you go. I now make pretty pictures for a living and my bookkeeper does the number crunching. Go figure.
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MsSuperFoxy
8 years ago
Wished what I know now, I knew at 16. I'm learning new things everyday. My gut and intuition, I follow as they guide me. I know myself well enough to make good choices. Fuck, I've made some bad ones. But it doesn't matter, cause at the end if the day it's ok and given me the choice not to go there again. Ohhhhh I would love to play the saxophone and play in a jazz band. One day at band camp I played......Ms Foxy
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Tall74nHard9
8 years ago
if school is really the right training ground for much that we need to know as we get older. The way I have seen the function of school is to give us the basics in getting prepared for higher education, and ultimately career choices. I have seen, though, through my own children and grandchildren, that they are gradually being taught more complicated issues at increasingly younger ages. Things that I would have been taught at stages in High School are now being taught in Primary School. For example, one of my g/k's is learning Italian, and he's in 1st class in primary. We didn't do languages until High School (and even then is was useless stuff like Latin). Agree with Peachy with regards to sex education - that is something that affects us all as we run through school. But at what age do you start to teach the kids about this ? I didn't get taught until we pretty much knew it by default anyway, but I don't think it is of much benefit to kids still in primary school, because (generally) they don't understand the 'mechanics' of what is being said to them. Financial instruction in school would be of benefit too, but most of it doesn't really get appreciated until you actually start earning a wage and have to make the necessary decisions about how to use what you get. Unfortunately too many kids get 'spoiled' early with regards to easy access to money through their parents, and will find it increasingly hard to understand how to budget when they are on their own. Parents pay for a mobile, pay for the monthly charges, etc etc. From what I have seen in my own family situation, and also plenty of reports about how kids (don't) progress in school these days, I think that the education system has removed itself too far away from the basics of the '3R's', and kids have suffered for it. How many kids do you see at retail establishments that can't do basic maths, or even spell properly. Need to work out your change - need a calculator for it. Grammar and spelling have just fallen by the wayside - all txtspk and other nonsense. And in years to come, we will all be relying on them to lead us in some form as politicians. What a task that is going to be ! Better leave it at this. Tall
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RHP User
8 years ago
balancing budgets? pretty sure that even from kindergarten you get taught addition and subtraction. Tall - I agree and disagree. The more complex stuff (like language, maths, science, etc) you can toss at kids and have them soak up, the better it is, their brains are like sponges and way more plastic than when they're older. But my experience is that it is going the other way, with 'hard topics' deferred till later - a school day is only so long, and once you've fitted in all the extra 'soft' stuff that is being increasingly foisted upon schools to teach, you're left with less time for literacy and numeracy.
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RHP User
8 years ago
Mr Adelaide here. I wish i had of been taught how to respect women at a young age.I'm of the age where people had respect for others and your elders giving up a train seat or holding a door open or even helping carry something heavy for a random person crossing the street, not just for old people, pregnant women but for anyone. But i had a inherant lack of respect for my partners. It was something i basically had to learn for myself through trial and error, i'm not going to blame my mother specifically but her choice in partners left me with the impression that women where property to do our bidding and do as they are told.It was not until my late 20's after a couple failed long term relationships (and a child) that i had a break from dating & sex. In that time i'd settled down happily by myself and through good fortune gained custody of my son who at the time was 9, i met my now ex wife around the same time and started to see cracks in my own sons attitude towards women. Right there and then i realized everything i had seen as a child i had basically done myself and i had taught my son to be the same, i was horrified. Obviously being in a better head space than my younger self i knew i had to do something so i basically had to retrain him which was not easy due to my new partner not being able to conceive and bringing in baggage as she put it, but i'm happy to say my son is a very respectful young man to this day, he still has his faults regarding women but they are just the normal teething issues every young man has and learns to deal with as you grow up. Anyway, basically respect for women and the the accordion.... Just so i can be old one day and play it on the street and sing bawdy songs until the police move me on. Not even joking about the accordion its way than a shitty harmonica!
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boobsandbusted
8 years ago
I wish id learnt how to deal with confrontation in a smart manner , I'm better at it now but still not great , no I don't belt people, quite opposite ,not great at being a hard ass and holding my own ground ,just outright don't like an argument ,especially petty ones where shit goes below the belt and you get sucked into playing that game and hate yourself later ,would have loved to learn debating ,and be good at putting people back in their box when they deserve it ,not in a mean way but a smart way that leaves them thinking wow ,not gunna screw with him again ,I now look like an idiot ,oops ,I now see your point, sorry lol. And the other ,would have been great to learn hanging out with women skills ,went to an all boys school ,then played sport ,never kicked around with women much and took a long time to get any confidence with them at all ,tbh social settings still scare the hell out of me ,I know ,I know and now your playing. The swinging game ,well no one said it was easy ,lol So in essence agree with above posters ,life skills ,would have been real handy ,early on - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
8 years ago
Quoting 'Koolgrey' Ive often wished I'd persisted with learning the guitar...or the piano would've been nice too. My sister stuck with her lessons for quite a while, but i was a bit impatient and preferred fishing, reading or playing sports. However, in recent times I've thought more about having some proper singing lessons...I'm not afraid to sing and I think I have a decent and deep voice...it just needs some training. I find it relaxing and satisfying and I would like to do it just for myself. ...you will really enjoy having singing lessons.I've had about 5 years of singing lessons, popular and classical, with 3 different teachers and have learned great stuff from all of them. You will end up singing songs/arias you never thought you'd be capable of. And the best part is that it is, as you say, satisfying and relaxing - an excellent way to wind down after a hard day's work.
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RHP User
8 years ago
...thanks, your inspiring me to give it a go. ☺
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RHP User
8 years ago
Quoting 'Koolgrey' Ive often wished I'd persisted with learning the guitar...or the piano would've been nice too. My sister stuck with her lessons for quite a while, but i was a bit impatient and preferred fishing, reading or playing sports. However, in recent times I've thought more about having some proper singing lessons...I'm not afraid to sing and I think I have a decent and deep voice...it just needs some training. I find it relaxing and satisfying and I would like to do it just for myself. Stop it! You were swoon worthy enough without adding in the deep voice
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RHP User
8 years ago
...engage in a confrontation be it simply vocal or go for it physically. A few years on TDY with the US Navy and flying upside down fixed all that. Catch ya on the backside and always in the air.
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RHP User
8 years ago
Quoting 'ForWomanOrCouple' A few years on TDY with the US Navy and flying upside down fixed all that. were you maintaining foreign relations while in a 4G dive? inverted? I bet you got a great polaroid of it ;)
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RHP User
8 years ago
Quoting 'Betty7216'Stop it! You were swoon worthy enough without adding in the deep voice One day Betty...one day, I'll treat you to my baritone. Until then, you'll just have to use your imagination.. I think I can do a pretty low rendition of Flo-Rida's "Low"...but I'd love to be able to sing "Throw your arms around me" by The Hunters. I'd sing that one for you Betty.. You and ilovelaughter are really inspiring me to do the lessons. But a holiday first.
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RHP User
8 years ago
Quoting 'Koolgrey'Quoting 'Betty7216'Stop it! You were swoon worthy enough without adding in the deep voice One day Betty...one day, I'll treat you to my baritone. Until then, you'll just have to use your imagination.. I think I can do a pretty low rendition of Flo-Rida's "Low"...but I'd love to be able to sing "Throw your arms around me" by The Hunters. I'd sing that one for you Betty.. You and ilovelaughter are really inspiring me to do the lessons. But a holiday first. Allow me to join the general consensus then Kool. What a rewarding accomplishment to to add to life. Peachy
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RHP User
8 years ago
...it would be rewarding, wouldn't it.☺
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RHP User
8 years ago
I found this thread touched me more deeply than I expected. It stirred memories and that was challenging. :-) I used to love singing with friends of mine when I was a kid Kool, Abba was the fav. They had piano lessons at home, a lot of memories there. I like to sing, I have a deep, strong voice that has it's moments. With the posts that followed on from Kool's, Forus1234, Superfoxxxy and Adelaide3some (we had an accordion when I was a kid. I had this vision of a RHP Band for a moment there but then I would have to get up and get out and that is not so appealing for this introvert, lol. Peachy
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RHP User
8 years ago
...yeah! We could all get together as the PeachyPearl Barber shop Quintet.. I think a lot of people resonate with singing the songs that touch them or "move" them in an undefinable way.And I think these tastes do change with maturity( read: my getting older.. ) too. The "cheesy" songs/ballads that 15 years ago I would( and did.. ) have mocked...I love to sing along to now and would love to give them a go with a bit of training. Like the boy bands...Backstreet Boys, Take That...some killer harmonies there.The needs of my rebellious youth for Rage Against The Machine and the like, is long gone...but I still love to hear RATM, and I love that following generations of youth have drawn to their anthems 25 years later, despite that they are hardly contemporary. I just appreciate a much, much broader range of music now....and occasionally singing it is food for the soul .
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RHP User
8 years ago
I think I would have liked to have learned to harden my heart.
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RHP User
8 years ago
Quoting 'PeachyPearL' I think I would have liked to have learned to harden my heart. ...it was a catchy song by I-dont-remember-who, but a hard heart is a cold heart. You sound like a warm heart Peachy. I am too. Better to be human...
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RHP User
8 years ago
You are a delightful human. Thank you. :-)
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Tall74nHard9
8 years ago
Quoting 'PeachyPearL' I think I would have liked to have learned to harden my heart. You are a beautiful soul the way you are, and I wouldn't want to see you changed in any fashion. Tall
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