I was more intelligent than a lot of the people I went to high school with. (Honestly not boasting, I don't think it did me any favours, but I was more book smart than a lot of my peers.)
The troubling sensation came when I also saw deeper into the subject than a teacher of it, most usually in English. I realise that English was my favourite subject, so I spent more time on it, but coming up with an interpretation that a teacher hadn't even considered, or arguing my philosophy teacher to defeat over an issue he had clearly spent ages composing the argument for, was very odd.
I spent all of last year at university not experiencing this, but suddenly today I defeated my teacher's entire point about Edgar Allen Poe's 'Tell Tale Heart' because I was apparently the only one in the room, including the tutor, who had considered that maybe the narrator was a woman, invalidating the entire intended subject of our seminar. I had clearly thrown my tutor, and myentire group, who had been assuming the narrator was male.
So my fellow escapists, you seem like an intelligent lot. When have you ever outsmarted or out-thought a teacher?
(By the by, if anyone clicks on that final option, I and many others may feel compelled to make fun of you and your disaffected teenage ways.)
EDIT: Please stop responding to this thread. It doesn't need to be necroed any more.
The troubling sensation came when I also saw deeper into the subject than a teacher of it, most usually in English. I realise that English was my favourite subject, so I spent more time on it, but coming up with an interpretation that a teacher hadn't even considered, or arguing my philosophy teacher to defeat over an issue he had clearly spent ages composing the argument for, was very odd.
I spent all of last year at university not experiencing this, but suddenly today I defeated my teacher's entire point about Edgar Allen Poe's 'Tell Tale Heart' because I was apparently the only one in the room, including the tutor, who had considered that maybe the narrator was a woman, invalidating the entire intended subject of our seminar. I had clearly thrown my tutor, and myentire group, who had been assuming the narrator was male.
So my fellow escapists, you seem like an intelligent lot. When have you ever outsmarted or out-thought a teacher?
(By the by, if anyone clicks on that final option, I and many others may feel compelled to make fun of you and your disaffected teenage ways.)
EDIT: Please stop responding to this thread. It doesn't need to be necroed any more.