<p>Lately schools been feeling like a drag. Im in AP's but we just get facts shoved in our faces. Then memorize them and then do well on the test, zipping through the course. It takes some time to actually understand the material so that you can actually apply it to your life. Instead its a numbers game. Just try to get a 90 something on the test and then forget about it. This is especially true in my French class where we memorize endless verbs rather than actually learning to speak in a natural way. In math just memorize equations rather than understand the math behind it.</p>
<p>In my AP US History course, my teacher makes a legitimate effort to have us actually understand why someone acts a certain way, rather than just memorize the action itself to regurgitate back onto the test.</p>
<p>Yeah I had a physics course like that where the teacher actually makes you think. Thanks to that I was able to really able to tie all the information together to make sense of it in the real world. Now I can actually use physics to solve more abstract problems rather than the standard textbook/memorization heavy problems where you dont need a conceptual understanding of whats going on. Plus it makes it more interesting and you actually would want to learn.</p>