Re: now Horticulture

I'm sure you're right, Kitty.  I guess part of my motivation was that I was
just stubborn enough to want to excell in those "unfeminine" topics.  It
was constantly made clear to me by my grandmother who raised me 
that I was not as pretty or talented as my mother had been (she was
apparently a beautiful blonde and a very talented musician - I was a
dumpy redhead and only a competent pianist - not talented).  I was
determined to be the best at something, and math and science was
where I could excel.  Anybody could do home ec., I thought.  In fact,
I was already a pretty good cook.  But it just seems to me that you
just absorb some things, even if you aren't taught them.  Oh well. At
least they do seem to enjoy learning these things now.
Auralie

In a message dated 11/16/2006 6:17:10 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
kmrsy@comcast.net writes:
Auralie, Something I discovered about learning along the way is that you are 
more likely to be interested in learning when it is something you have an 
interest in.  Yes I took HS biology, chemistry, and physics and hated all of 
it.  Took chem in college, barely scraped by. No interest in these topics 
whatsoever.  Years later when I developed an interest in growing things, I 
started my hort classes through Guelph.  First class was on soils which 
included chem, physics, biology, etc.  I had to work very hard on this class 
with supplememtal reading to bring myself up to speed since I retained 
nothing from earlier times.  However, because I really wanted to know all 
these things this time because I had an application that interested me, I 
thoroughly enjoyed the subjects and did well in the course.  When you say 
"that's just high-school biology," to your class, it may be that they had it 
but just didn't care at the time.  If you don't care, you don't retain.

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