Clear Thinking

No I didnt I changed my way of thinking living life. I thought by the time I was 17 I knew every thing lol. But living life taught me a whole lot more than any class I took.

That is brilliant especially as it was the advice of your friend that you took this course..I wish now that I had but no unfortunately instead I went for a typing course to be a receptionist...that at the time taught me how to write letters,paragraphs etc. It has only been since I have got older that I have really found a clear way of thinking in my own way, and try to apply this to my everyday life too as the one thing I do do is just live for today...hugs littleowl

A coarse of Clear Thinking/ We need that type of coarse in Every highschool.I always thought for myself and I never just went along with something without thinking it out .But there are so many who don't. I didn't have a coarse that changed my way of thinking but I did like my English Lit class and my algebra class too.

I had business classes in high school that gave me the skills to type and use the keyboard. I use the computer for everything I do for work and if I did not have strong typing skills it would be harder for me. Now no one told me to take the classes I did that on my own. Now by taking these classes I met a teacher that saved me from a very bad home life and became a very good friend. I got kicked out of the house at the age of 18 and had no where to turn to. So I asked her if I could live with her and her husband. She was in her 50's and had grown children. They let me move in with them. If it was not for them I do not know where I would be today. So the typing and business classes in high school helps me with using the keyboard and the classes led me to meet this beautiful teacher and friend.

I had this incredible 8th grade teacher for English who, believe it or not, did introduce our class to most of those concepts, including the Beowulf, and a bit more about reasoning that most people seem to get in most English classes. Unfortunately a lot of people hated her for that, and she ended up not teaching there very long. But that was a window to the world and my key to future success, particularly as she made us learn sentence diagramming. That is what really helped me later on in college. John Milton, who had an incredible amount of power and served the English Commonwealth impressively even while he was blind, was more than a little miffed when his own writings were banned by an oppressive heirarchy, and he wrote eloquently of his outrage. If you have read Milton's wonderful treatise on free speech called Aeropagitica you may recall that even the first sentence might well put off native speakers of today's English. Here it is: They who to States and Governors of the Commonwealth direct their speech, High Court of Parliament, or wanting such access in a private condition, write that which they foresee may advance the public good; I suppose them as at the beginning of no mean endeavor, not a little altered and moved inwardly in their minds: Some with doubt of what will be the success, others with fear of what will be the censure, some with hope, others with confidence of what they have to speak. OK, where is the main noun and the main verb? But it was and is a wonderful treatise, and at the risk of sounding political, which I hate to ever do, I still think nobody who cannot read and understand Aeropagitca should ever be allowed to vote in any English-speaking nation.

Hi craftcatcher, Well done to you girl for taking your friend's advice and done so well with the English literature. I never had a chance to go to college and my life changing came late in life for me. Tamara

I enrolled to an archaelogy course in University. It did not had to do much with my line of study. But it helped me to broaden my vision and the perception how to look at life. It provided me with insights about history, human nature and life in general.