What was your absolute favorite subject in school? Can be grade, middle, high school or college.
Mine was history.
When I was a junior and senior in high school, I had the same history teacher both years. He was a great teacher and made us work hard. We had to keep a “journal” of the things we learned that were most interesting to us.
I tried to make stories out of them. Go figure!
No…not that one! 🙂
Over to you, TKZ readers and writers. What was your favorite, how old were you, and are you still fascinated by the same subject?
I’m with you. History was always my favorite subject and still is. I had good teachers of history and I loved in college being able to pursue my own interests in history. During one of my college courses I got to dive deeper and learn more about the history of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, for one example.
And it has always affected my writing. To this day I have zero interest in writing contemporary fiction. My favorite period is 19th Century United States (the time I’ve always wished I lived in). Although I’m writing some books with a friend and had to pull myself forward to early 20th century with some books set WWI era.
Close second and for related reasons, English is 2nd fave. As I’ve mentioned here many times, I had two wonderful teachers, Mrs. Seese and Mr. Shaffer who were great encouragers of writing and creativity.
The BOO/HISS prize goes to math. YUCK!
Agree on math, Brenda!!!
Morning, Brenda!
The BOO/HISS prize goes to math. YUCK!
Love it! Have a great day, my friend!
I loved history (US, specifically), even though it wasn’t considered cool at the time. I had a teacher who’d stand in front of the class and give off-the-cuff lectures about a topic, often including humorous asides, and I could tell he loved history as well and loved talking about it.
English was my second favorite, and not just because it came easily to me. I actually liked reading the assigned classics (again, though not cool), and that was my introduction to Shakespeare and Steinbeck and Dickens, to name a few. I also obviously enjoyed the writing assignments, and my teacher would think up ones that teenagers might like, such as writing a TV detective show script.
Hated both math (in all forms) and science and had to struggle through them.
Hi April!
Your teachers for history and English sound wonderful. My history teacher was awesome, but my English teacher? Not so much. Thinking back, it seems like she really didn’t like her job or her students. My college English professors were much better–or, maybe I’d grown up a bit. 🙂
Have a great weekend!
History and math were my favorite subjects without question. So much so that my senior year I took electives in both to fill my schedule.
I didn’t really learn to enjoy English until college where we spent the entire semester focused on writing. That was fun.
Hi Douglas!
History, math, journalism, English are the winners this morning. I wish I’d stuck with college–had a total of two years, one right out of high school and the other in my forties. Then life got in the way. I would have continued with my love of history and writing. But…I can still indulge those loves with research!
🙂
Thanks for your input this morning…have a good one!
English and history, and I still love both. And please don’t give me anything with numbers in it. They don’t make sense.
Hi Patricia…
And please don’t give me anything with numbers in it.
I like to say, “I’ve never met a number I liked…” Gets some laughs sometimes, and some confused looks from my bro (see my reply to Becky), who went on to a PhD in applied mathematics.
Have a great weekend!
Science, especially the biology parts. I think it was 7th grade that I found out my love of animals and nature was actually a subject in school. Chemistry and physics, not so much.
Hi Terry!
I liked biology, but not as much as history. The dissecting kind of got to me, I guess.
Another fave class I took much later, when my kiddos were almost grown-ups (one still isn’t, but that’s a totally different discussion…) 🙂 was creative writing. Taking it as an adult, I think, was much more productive for me than had I taken it as a kid.
Have a great weekend, and thanks for stopping by!
Chemistry and French are the two that first come to mind; I took three years of each in high school, and continued chemistry for a while in college. I also had two years of journalism and was the managing editor of the school’s 8-page weekly newspaper. I had thought I wanted to be a photojournalist and travel the world making images in both film and words, but instead of igniting a fire for reporting, the experience, much to my teacher’s disappointment, turned me off that whole idea. Traveling is still my favorite thing, but I use the experiences to create stories that don’t hurt real people.
Good morning, Becky.
Chemistry. I remember one semester in high school, and being totally mystified. Much to the amusement of my older brother, who went on to become a scientist and mathematician. We are total opposites.
Never took French (the bro did!), but I took seven years of Spanish starting in seventh grade. Loved it.
Thanks for stopping by, and have a great weekend!
English and journalism. I had fantastic teachers for both. We had nine week courses in Advanced English such as Russian Literature (We held a trial and played the main characters in Anna Karenina), Spanish literature (I read Don Quixote), French literature, Romantic poets, Shakespeare, etc. When I did an author event at my hometown library 40 years later she came (In my teenage mind she was ancient in 1975!). My journalism teacher is the reason I went to college (first in my family), received a journalism degree, and became a journalist. An amazingly quirky individual I’ll never forget. Great teachers should make more than pro basketball players!
Hi Kelly!
We held a trial and played the main characters in Anna Karenina…
Now that’s something I’d enjoy! My other love all the way through high school and college years was drama.
What a treat to see your journalism teacher in your author event audience–can’t even imagine.
And then there’s this: Great teachers should make more than pro basketball players! 🙂
So agree with you on that. Have a great day…
History was my favorite subject in school, though the fire wasn’t truly lit until I was in college. I took a Western Civ 101 class and that was it. I went on to earn a Bachelor’s of Science in History with an emphasis on East Asia. The B.S. was because I took a number of courses in linguistics, sociology and economics.
I still love history, and went through a phase a while back where I was reading everything I could on the Roman Empire, and watching Great Courses video lectures.
My favorite class in high school was Gothic Literature, followed by one in American Lit.
Hi Dale!
History and Gothic Lit. Wow…what a combo… If my school had offered Gothic Lit, I’d have signed up for sure–right after the history courses.
Have a wonderful weekend, my friend!
I must be in the right place. History. I had great history teachers. I am still friends with a few today. It was a different time. We took field trips where we carpooled and met someplace. We toured Bellefontaine Cemetary (https://bellefontainecemetery.org/) where St. Louis’ history is buried. We learned about the real exorcism and St. Louis’ role in the event. My children think I should have become a history teacher.
Good morning, Alan. Just skimming the answers this morning, it seems history is popular in the TKZ halls.
Your kiddos are probably right, although with your love for the subject and your experiences learning local history up close and personal, you’re probably a covert teacher of history. We unconsciously teach what we love, I’ve found. (And maybe what we hate?)
Have a great day!
My favorite subject was math in all of its forms. Such beauty and perfection. Most fav course was analytic geometry
I never took a formal course in logic, but I taught a course in Computer Organization to undergrads when I was in grad school. It included a section on Boolean logic, which I loved teaching.
I’ve heard it said that when God spoke the universe into being, the language He used was Mathematics. 🙂
Hi, Kay!
You sound like you’d get along great with my brother. Although I hated math in any form, I really loved a college course in Logic that I took as an adult.
I’ve heard it said that when God spoke the universe into being, the language He used was Mathematics.
What an interesting concept! My bro would agree!
Thanks for stopping by, and have a great weekend.
Mine was, no surprise, English Lang, closely followed by English Lit. Loved writing or dissecting stories.
Geography…Oh, Lord. We had a series of lessons on Steel. Literally, Steel 1, Steel 2, Steel 3 etc. All the way up to about 16, each as excruciating as the last. What geography had to do with steel I still don’t know. I think it was just a torture device. I went to a GPDST school (Girls’ Public Day School Trust), posh but inadequate. My schoolfriends and I call it G- PTSD!
But what EVERYONE remembers about our school is the pickled baby we had in the Science Lab. Even now, nobody can agree on its origins. But it was a real foetus, in a jar, I bet to hell it’s not still there and I’m surprised it never made an appearance in one of my stories…
English. I loved reading, and I was reading Mark Twain and Shakespeare in elementary school. I was lucky enough to be in the “smart kid” classes in public school so I was around some extremely bright kids. In high school, for the first time, I was top in the class of anything in American literature. I knew I’d found my future. I was writing back then, too.
Honestly, I’ve always loved learning about everything, and it’s a good trait to have for those of us in writing because we must do so much research for our books.