Did you enjoy more the learning or the socialisation aspect of school?

[Chicken Drummer]

More I mean



I would say socialisation , I enjoyed playing football more than learning Spainish

[Coolthulhu]

Socialization. Nobody that I know of enjoys being forced to learn things he's not interested in and the overall patronizing and sheltering treatment one gets in high school. Plus, a lot of the stuff we had to study turned out to be utterly useless (and unsurprisingly so - when was the last time I had to find the orthogonal projection of a vector on another vector? That's right, I've never had to).

Other way around in university. Didn't socialize much there as I already had my circle of friends, classes were enjoyable for the most part, and all but one professors treated us like adults as opposed to kids. Even though we weren't actually "adults", not in the first two or three years at least, it was a most welcome change.

[shadowmouse]

Learning, when it was an option.

[Queen of Hamsters]

Learning, but the "social" aspects with the ADD/ADHD-boys running around meant it was rarely a calm environment.

I am self-taught in Swedish and English for that reason. I wanted to read and learn, but couldn't at school, so I used the library/movies/music. My ultimate mode of learning came to light when I found distance studies.

[Amerissis]

Learning. The only people liking it for the 'socializing' are the jocks and cheerleaders, also known as 'the popular kids', who have no intellect to learn anyway.

[Unholyground]

I liked both but I found out quickly that I learned infinitely more when I got out of school and started doing my own research into literally everything. School is kinda shitty when you look back outside of the social aspect since most schools do not keep up with the times even now.

[Boricha]

Both, I mean it really depends on the grade level which one I preferred... I was always a good student, but I guess I preferred socializing in elementary and middle school. High school was not a good time for time for me socially, but being able to pick many electives made me more interested in learning.

[Zuben]

Socialisation. I sucked at putting effort to learning, gaining hubris from the subjects I was naturally adept at.

[Draco-Onis]

High school learning college socializing

High school was too much of a fish bowl for me too much gossip and drama. College is so huge no one knows your business.

[Shadowferal]

There were plenty of days when school felt like a relief.

[Theodarzna]

I think in primary school, I personally enjoyed learning.

In Middle and High school? Socialization.

College? Learning dominated but I still liked the socialization.

[Fencers]

Both. I loved post-Elementry School education as both activity and institution. I spent a lot of time & effort in high school doing extra courses and signing up for almost every after school group.

When I got to college, I doubled down. I joined everything, switch my major twice, went to three different schools in three different states. I find the environment of college very stimulating in both the social and educational side of things. Many of my friends and family will say I spent too much time going to college (in total I spent close to 10 years in college/taking courses). Indeed, I was/am that person.

I even enrolled in film courses in my mid-30s just for the hell of it and my passion for film analysis. This is on pause right now, but in a couple of years, I'll likely have a film degree too.

I love it.

[Adamas102]

Learning. The only people liking it for the 'socializing' are the jocks and cheerleaders, also known as 'the popular kids', who have no intellect to learn anyway.

Sounds a bit like jealousy... I’m sure those “dumb jock/cheerleader” stereotypes are pretty common at crappy schools, but they’re certainly not the rule.

At the high school I went to being a strong athlete and being an AP/Honors student was rarely mutually exclusive. Pretty much everyone did well above average academically and with a relatively small student population (Private school so ~130 kids per grade) more than half did sports (including cheerleading). There were still cliques and groups who might have been considered the “cool kids”, but the differences weren’t as stark as all those movie tropes make them out to be.

[the game]

band was the only part of high school I enjoyed.

[Forgettable]

The socialization part of school wasn't much fun for me the first 10 years. I had a few friends, but ultimately it was a bad experience. In grade 11 when I got contacts to replace my glasses I stopped getting made fun of and things were better. It's ridiculous how petty kids (and people in general) are.

I enjoyed most of the learning aspects of school. Also I disagree with the "being forced to learn" sentiment expressed by many people. School essentially shows you many options for what you COULD learn, by forcing you to try it. By the time you're done school you've probably figured out what you like and what you don't like, thanks to being forced to try so many different things. And that's a good thing, because it gives you an idea of what to do with your life after school.

[StayTuned]

Neither. School was an absolute nightmare that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. Bullying, abusive teachers, bigots, bitches, angry teens... Nothing to like about it.

I skipped a shit ton of it, changed schools multiple times, repeated a class and barely made it to graduation at the worst kind of school in town. I just passed enough shit to be allowed to enter a technical school. Only when I went there and had fellow minded slightly nerdy classmades I managed to enjoy school and learn enough about IT and common classes to graduate. It was hard to catch up on math, which I am still very bad at. But matter of fact is that I'm not using most of what I learned during that time... And yet, graduating from there allowed me to go to a university, which I finished successfully and today I'm leading small to medium IT development projects. I think I turned out quite well for how bad my early education was.

[kamuimac]

learning

socialization in schools is most of time complete waste of time as you wont meet 99% of those people ever again in your adoult live

unless you mean networking during university which can bring you benefits due to people working in the same branch of economy as you do . then its important but you have to be carefull who you socialise with because there is no point to waste time on "loosers" who wont achieve much in future .

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The socialization part of school wasn't much fun for me the first 10 years. I had a few friends, but ultimately it was a bad experience. In grade 11 when I got contacts to replace my glasses I stopped getting made fun of and things were better. It's ridiculous how petty kids (and people in general) are.

I enjoyed most of the learning aspects of school. Also I disagree with the "being forced to learn" sentiment expressed by many people. School essentially shows you many options for what you COULD learn, by forcing you to try it. By the time you're done school you've probably figured out what you like and what you don't like, thanks to being forced to try so many different things. And that's a good thing, because it gives you an idea of what to do with your life after school.

kids are not petty - kids are brutaly honest because they didnt learn yet how to lie and "wear a mask" in social circles.

adoults think exackly the same - they just learned how to mask it and lie to your face.

[Lochton]

More I mean



I would say socialisation , I enjoyed playing football more than learning Spainish

Took me six years of school before I could experience socialization at a school. I had to change school for that as a bully victim.

[PACOX]

A mix of both. If I wasn't learning then it was a waste of time. At the same time I wanted to chop it up with some of my friends who I only got to see at school.

[Soulwind]

Let's see, what did I enjoy more, dodging flying chairs and avoiding bullies for several hours every day? Or the anxiety inducing, meaningless ball of knowledge that some burocrat deemed right to force down my throat, delivered by depressed adults who lost their passion after seeing how pointless their job is?

I enjoyed leaving all that behind, for sure. Real life is way less stressful than school.