Best Advice A Teacher Ever Gave You

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>I don’t think any teacher has given me substantial advice but I’ve honestly had some amazing teachers. My algera I teacher in eighth grade was by far the best teacher ive ever had:</p>

<p>I enjoyed math before algebra and thought I was pretty decent in it, but when I got to algebra I I had a super strict teacher and completely failed all my tests. I got worried about failing after I failed the first few and I wouldn’t finish tests in time (and whatever I didn’t finish was wrong) . I got f’s straight across the board and the teacher was still very strict with me and had no sympathy for it. I went to other teachers to get help and finally started going to every one of her tutoring sessions after school, I did all my homework every night (and made sure to show all my work) and took every assignment seriously. I got my grades up a little but even close to the end of the year I was still doing poorly on tests. The teacher introduced me to her husband on more then one occasion as her brightest student, and she really pushed me to be my best. I ended the class by getting the highest score on my exam out of the entire eighth grade (a 100%) … She prepared me do well for highschool, I passed her class with an 81, but since then I’ve made straight a’s in all my math courses and will be going into AP Calc AB next year as a sophomore. :slight_smile: she really made me into a better student.</p>

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<p>There are going to be a lot of people smarter, quicker, and plain better than you… your job is to outclass them.</p>

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<p>Pay now or pay later. (Used in terms of procrastination)</p>

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<p>My favorite fifth grade teacher said, “you seriously need to do your homework!” My favorite eighth grade teacher said, “start doing you darn homework!” …their words of wisdom finally sunk in at the start of tenth grade :D</p>

<p>The stat teacher would tell us to “have a good weekend and make good choices” every single Friday. We kept waiting for him to forget, but he never did!</p>

<p>My favorite teacher I’ve had so far (psych) said to me, “who gives a ***** what other people think? Do whatever the f**k you want!” …He had a bit of a potty-mouth, but he was awesome!</p>

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<p>Do not compare yourself with other people</p>

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<p>It’s not enough to be the best in the class if it’s not your personal best.</p>

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<p>Stop f.u.c.k.i.n.g around young man Become serious about you life don’t wait like I did</p>

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<p>“You have to be the best to be what you want. Don’t [expletive] up.”</p>

<p>I screwed up.</p>

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<p>Lol @ Never give up, never surrender. I’m dying of laughter. I just saw that movie 2 weeks ago, if you’re talking about Galaxy Quest.</p>

<p>“It’s not where you start, it’s where you end up”.</p>

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<p>They have no lives.</p>

<p>Maybe you shouldn’t trust people with your stuff.</p>

<p>Don’t do something that you’ll later regret.</p>

<p>You can still get into college without taking 7 APs in one year.</p>

<p>Learning is supposed to be fun.</p>

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<p>I once attended a lecture given by Steven Levitt at UChicago. He said that once when he failed at something as a kid, his dad gave him the single best piece of advice he’d ever received: “Son, if you want to be good at something, you have to do something no one else is willing to do.” I think Levitt’s dad is a worldwide famous doctor on like farting or stomach problems or something.</p>

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<p>@HonorsCentaur: That’s pretty amusing/awesome.</p>

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<p>“Marry up.”</p>

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<p>If you spend your whole life working to sit at the big boys’ table, you’ll find that the food is poisoned. So instead work because you love it.</p>

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<p>“Statistics is a mathematically precise line drawn between and unwarranted assumption and a foregone conclusion.” Dr. Jay Gottesman </p>

<p>This changed the way I looked at many issues.</p>

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<ol>
<li><p>“Know everything”</p></li>
<li><p>“Life’s not about winning the race, it’s about enjoying the ride.”</p></li>
<li><p>“Life’s not fair. That’s your job”.</p></li>
</ol>

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<p>My seventh grade science teacher told us that taking someone’s homework or essay wasn’t worth it: “If you’re gonna steal, steal big. Rob a bank.”</p>

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<ol>
<li><p>Everything reinforces</p></li>
<li><p>Better to do the thing than to live in fear of it</p></li>
<li><p>Stop feeling sorry for yourself (Drill Sergeant)</p></li>
</ol>

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<p>“You can still get into college without taking 7 APs in one year”</p>

<p>FINALLY A REALISTIC PERSON !!!</p>

<p>No seriously a lot of CC users should take this advice</p>

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<p>“Just do your best. Nobody can do better than their best”</p>

<p>-7th grade teacher</p>