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Re: What is the most important subject?
the most important subject is one which is going to be relevant for your career. if you want to be an engineer, why not engineering studies? get a feel of it first, it may actually help if you choose to go to uni... if you want to be a personal trainer then PDHPE is probably useful to have...
the most important subject is one which is going to be relevant for your career. if you want to be an engineer, why not engineering studies? get a feel of it first, it may actually help if you choose to go to uni... if you want to be a personal trainer then PDHPE is probably useful to have...
its not the post counts that get you into NS, its the weeks you have been on bos. i think its two weeks then you have access to NScatzhernandez said:Lyounama, Thanks for that very deep insightful lecture that you have taken the time to bestow upon me . I'm just trying to rack up my post count so that I can post in non-school. Do you know how many posts I will need?
yeah i agree that the English subject isn't forfilling the outcome of critical thinking as BOS would like to think but since NSW uses an outcome based education system, its like that for all the subjects. more likely that not you are also copying essays from other subjects. English is more subjective and therefore you are more likely to critically think than in other subjects. if your teachers are any good they should correct grammar and suggest ways you can improve in your essays. if you are looking for relevance instead and see relevance in standard English why not choose standard english? the course is also more likily to teach you the basics that you may be looking after...lyounamu said:I doubt usefulness of some English topics in our everyday lives. At one point in life, do you need to know about poems? At one point in life, do you need to know about Shakespeare? My argument is that large section of what we learn in English are truly irrelevant and should be abolished.
I do not doubt the usefulness of English in general but I truly question the RELEVANCE OF some topics in English and I think that's truly unfair for students who undertake either Adnvaced English, Extension 1 English and Extension 2 English where we basically need to pick up the damn Shakespeare texts and write essays about it. They don't have to do it in Standard English and ESL where most of materials seem to be quite relevant.
I mean, why do we need to go further than we are capable of? Majority of Advanced English people don't even know how to structure essays and how to write English in write grammatical order! I am not even forgetting those in Extension 1 & 2 English. If the BOS wants to develop critical thinking, they better start from the basis where we basically learn how to write better and use better vocabulary from the start! Many people therefore end up copying essays from others to succeed in their exams.
Even thouh English PROMOTES so called "critical thinking", English remains itself quite fact-based and majority of subjects promote that "critical thinking" as well. English is not the only subject that does that.
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