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My fourth grade teacher, Mr. Colfer. You didn’t ask why but I’ll explain a bit anyway.Mr. Colfer’s American public school classroom in 1978 was kinda like a 2018 American Montessori classroom. And, we did cool things together, too.Mr. Colfer had shoeboxes. I mean, maybe two dozen shoeboxes! Each box was filled (filled!!!) with the larger-sized index cards, filled out and separated by indexed dividers. Each student had a “progress book”, divided by subject. At the beginning of the year we took a placement test (he didn’t call it that but that’s what it was) and then he had us bring our progress books up front one by one and he made a note in each subject that said what cards we were supposed to start with in his vast array of shoeboxes.And then we progressed at our own speed.There were lessons we had together but, if you were ahead, you could work or read quietly in the study corner while he taught math or gammar to the students who needed that instruction and help.Each math card told the book, the chapter, and the assignments. Read this section, write out this practice problem, read some more, do another practice problem. Do this problem set. Bring to Mr. Colfer to check. And we could keep going. At our own speed. Three friends and I had a marvelous time zipping through the 4th, 5th, and beginnings of 6th grade math that year. And with almost no homework because he only had four copies of the 5th and 6th grade books so we couldn’t take those home.Each English card had basic assignments and we progressed through those at our own speed, too (sometimes we had to get worksheets from him, sometimes write out vocabulary definitions or alphabetize words, etc.). AND, there were the reading assignments. Find your level, choose a book from the list, find the card for that book, read a chapter and answer questions, when finished with book, use previous answers plus a prompt to write a book report/analysis. Yes, we were in 4th grade. I remember how hard I worked to finish The Wind in the Willows and all the assignments that accompanied it!And our progress book kept track of it all.Mr. Colfer set up a classroom economy wherein we all had jobs, bank accounts, checkbooks, account reconciliation sheets, purchases to make, responsibilities to meet AND, come April, taxes to pay! I filed a Colferland 1040EZ that year. Learned SO much and thought it was all a game.Mr. Colfer could play guitar. Sometimes we just gathered in the classroom corner and sang songs together.There were spelling bees and science lessons and all sorts of group activities but what a joy it was to not have to sit bored through most of every day. My 3d grade teacher nearly killed my love of learning. Thank God for Mr. Colfer.

I am an INTJ, however, just a teenager, so there is plenty to add to this, but I will try to dissect my life as best as I can. Just for reference, I took my first MBPT test in the third grade and was an INTJ. I took one a few months ago this year in 8th grade, and was also an INTJ. So, I am definitely an INTJ and have been for some time.Okay, so in preschool. I went to an episcopal church[1] for preschool. They taught us very well. I learned different things including writing, talking, how to properly zip up a jacket, and also some basic Italian. This was a lot of fun. My Italian name was Benedetto. It was all very basic, by enjoyed learning about it all. I was always interested in non-fiction and that is what my parents read to me. I really didn't like fiction (I never really did, it never made sense), but I loved non-fiction. I also took a speech class in preschool, which benefitted me a lot later in life.Enter Kindergarten. I only took half-day Kindergarten, so it wasn't too big of a step up, but a lot more regular than my previous engagements. Kindergarten really set me up for later life, but I never really thought much of it.First grade was amazing! My teacher was great. We learned all about the Native Americans from all over the country, as well as math and reading. This really got me interested in history and Native American culture. I was always in a rush and wanted to be done as fast as possible. I got my argumentative personality in this grade (from being held back from going to recess) and (as Annika Peacock alluded in her answer) got my affinity for the weather. That year I dressed up as Gary Lezak (my favorite of all the local meteorologists) for Halloween. It was so much fun!Second grade was one of the most important, yet more boring years of my life. I learned a lot of my life and test taking skills that year, but didn't learn a lot from an academic perspective. Everything was really easy.This year I was tested to be in the gifted program. I kind of flunked the creativity tests (no surprise there), but on the Measure of Academic Progress (MAP) Test, I got scores that average 5th and 6th graders were supposed to get. It blew them away! Due to these high scores, I started doing basic Algebra problems. I found them to be redundant and too easy, yet now understand why.To get I did a project where I evaluated everyone's favorite season and organized it on a systematic bar and line graph for my project to get in. I really liked this. I got into the program in April finally and started working on projects relating to the Ring of Fire and maps. I had a ton of them sprawled out everywhere. I also did a lot of problem solving tasks like toothpick teasers.As for weather, I finally started doing the weather on my schools morning announcements once a week. Second grade was very boring intellectually, but one of the most important in terms of life skills.Third grade is where everything was turned up a notch. This is the first year where they teach you in all the subjects well and start preparing you for standardized tests. We worked on Social Studies; studying the different cultures from Mexico, Great Britain, and the History of where we lived (Kansas).In math, we worked on our multiplication tables (I had multiplication and division 0-12 mastered by the end of the year) and we had math competitions (the Pentathlon) which I won by the end of the year.I started becoming a lot more interested in sports this year, becoming a much bigger football fan. I probably watched 6+ hours of football a day. I played more sports during recess as well, playing a lot of kickball and not being terrible at it. I had been playing soccer (and still do; it is only on a Recreational team) and played baseball (up until 2nd grade). These helped with this a lot. I had also competed in Tae Kwon Do from 2nd grade until 4th grade and became a brown belt. However I then decided to quit.In my gifted class, I started doing research into the stock market (this is why my bio for Stock Markets is "Learned almost all I know about the Stock Market in the 3rd Grade" because I did) but then gave that up after not really understanding it too well and needing a lot of help. I didn't like trading and investments. I also did a project with the Aztecs. It was a really cool PowerPoint. After this project, I went to see my school's 6th graders do a report on a specific culture. I went up to the principal and asked if I could do my project (once I got to 6th grade) on Mexico as I had just studied the Aztecs. He said that it was too easy and instead told to do a report on Liechtenstein. According to my mom, this was the biggest mistake of his career. To this day, I still will talk about Liechtenstein, but back then that is all I talked about until I finished my own report on the country. I made it on a very nice display board and covered a lot of the facts. I loved this project. My last project of the year was a jeopardy presentation on scientists of history. It included Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Isaac Newton, and others.I stayed doing the weather this year, right up to the end of the year when the principal informed me that the morning announcements wanted to take a different direction and he fired me from my weather job right there. I was pissed. I almost beat up my principal right outside of the classroom. I cried my eyes out. It was not a good day.Third grade was a great year. I learned a lot in subjects that I hadn't cared about as much before and it also advanced my education well.Over the summer between 3rd and 4th grade, I experience some anxiety attacks. I was afraid of Carbon Monoxide (CO) after a friend told me of its deadly powers and would never even walk behind trucks. I also barely ate for a week after I was afraid that I would choke on food. This was a rough time for me. I went to a doctor to deal with all of this anxiety and was diagnosed with minor cases of OCD. I am fine now, but it always helps to have something to do (thanks Quora).Fourth grade was when I actually started doing advanced classes. My teachers realized that I was really good at math, so they just let me skip fourth grade math and go straight to 5th grade math. It was still very boring, but nice that I could just control my own learning. There was also an Olympiad math competition that participated in. I was always in the Top 50% of the world on this.The same thing occurred with Reading. A 5th grade teacher (who bascially had a degree in reading, minus a few credits) taught a few of use some advanced reading skills. We did vocabulary, novels, and other projects. It made me appreciate reading a lot more.In my gifted class, I have moved to a different school for my class that I go to once a week. I started out with a project on Acient Roman Architecture (Amazing and Still Standing Ancient Roman Architecture). I learned a lot. While searching for something, I think that this was when I discovered Quora and created an account (though it may have been 5th grade). This was the big project that I remember from this year.I don't know how I received my fondness for technology, but it started shaping in the third and fourth grade. It might have been because we did our spelling tests on the computer, or maybe my use of Word or Powerpoint, but I really started to like technology, something that I still have with me today.Fifth grade was when I actually started to enjoy reading. Before, I would read, but it wasn't my favorite. But, my 5th grade teacher decided to institute a contest to see who could read the most books. I was very moved by this and easily beat the rest of my classmates.In math, I was doing 6th grade math, but the curriculum was very stupid and not beneficial at all. They made us do things that were not worth it. I didn't like it a lot.In Social Studies, we had to do a report on our American Hero. I wanted to do Bill Gates or Steve Jobs (Heck, even Stephen Hawking even though he isn't American, his robot gives him an American accent), but my teacher wanted me me to do something more traditional, so I picked Paul Revere. I pulled off the costume amazingly, complete with a fake horse. My speech included me starting off by galloping in on this fake horse and screaming at the top of my lungs in this huge bellowing voice "THE REGULARS ARE COMING OUT! THE REGULARS ARE COMING OUT!" (not to be confused with the British are coming, which he did not say). I have a naturally loud voice (though it has tapered off in recent years) so everyone was awake after that, as I was one of the last speeches to go. I pulled off my speech perfectly and it was great.In Science, I had just realized that there were more than 3-4 states of matter[2] (Bose-Einstein Condensate FTW!) and I caused lots of trouble with this knowledge. I was always asking why we weren't taught this and they said it was "too complicated". Whatever, I really didn't care.My gifted class was a ton of fun this year. My project was on the Higgs-Boson Particle, and I did a ton of research into it. In a group project, we did an astrobiology lesson. I learned a ton about space and exoplanets then and we even got to talk with a Kepler Mission Scientist!I had started thinking about careers this year, and was dead-set on becoming a lawyer. I loved arguing and just thought that being a lawyer was for me. I was setting up to go to Harvard for Law School.I also started band in 5th grade. I played the Euphonium.Sixth grade was a really interesting year. The only thing that made it worth it was a Pre-Algebra math class that I had to attend an hour before school started. This is normally a 7th grade class, but a select few individuals in the district (well about 100-150 students). This class taught us the basics of Algebra. We learned a ton of advanced things that were normally reserved for two years later and I loved how it was taught. I learned more in that class then I ever have in any of my classes. I regard it today as my most important class.Reading was just a joke. I don't think I even really cared about it in 6th grade. It really didn't teach me anything new and I just went through the motions.Science was really cool. We were taught a lot of the basics of what we were to learn in 7th grade. I really liked how it was taught and it was a great way to introduce us to genetics and Biology before we learned that all of second semester of 7th grade. This was perfect for me and others to prepare them for the years to come.Social Studies covered something completely new: Ancient Civilizations. I had already had a lot of experience in this area (I knew a lot about Greek mythology, Roman Culture, and the Aztecs and Incas) but it was still very interesting to learn about Ancient China and Mesopotamia. I learned a lot that I hadn't learned before.In the gifted class, we did a mock trial. I was the prosecuting attorney. We went to a real law firm that had a mock court room in it and presented our case in front of our parents. This just fed my desire to become a lawyer even more.I got back on the morning announcements in 6th grade! This time I was actually presenting the news instead of the weather. I loved this opportunity. Then, the last week they let me do the weather as a reward. It was great to reminisce before I left the school forever.6th grade was overall a wasted year. Most of my free time was spent being on a computer, cleaning things up, and running errands. I had a ton of freetime (like 2-3 hours a day) and used it wisely. I always got my work done really fast. This was about to change.Seventh grade was my favorite grade so far in my life. It had its ups and downs like every grade, but finally having freedom in school was a big change that really benefitted me.Math was very boring. I was taking Algebra 1 (a high school class, but most 8th graders take it). The problem was that they were teaching it to average 8th graders, not advanced level 7th graders. It went way to slow for me and I ended up getting really nasty by the second semester, especially because it was a student teacher and she didn't like my complex questions. It was one of my favorite classes, but was very very boring. I was able to pick everything up in 5 minutes while it took 90 minutes for most others. This was very perplexing, still to this day.Science was also very interesting. We covered basic chemistry, physics, and biology by the end of the year. Chemistry and physics were the most interesting, as they involved the atom, which I have been very interested in. I always was interested in this. However, my teacher did not like me bringing it up, which prompted me to ask Why doesn't my teacher like for me to talk about particle physics, CERN, or subatomic particles? on Quora. I got some answers that really helped me out. I learned a lot that year, but biology was a lot of the same things that I have heard in the past and was not very helpful. I didn't resent my teacher by the end of the year, but there were times where we clashed.For science, we also had to create an experimental science project. My was on the affect that water had on Wi-Fi signals. It was a real world problem. I tested it and recorded my results. I was even sent to a city-wide science fair, where I won a gold ribbon in the engineering section (it was an experimental project, not an engineering project). Never the less, it was a fairly successful project (with some major design flaws).English was a great year. I learned a ton of things. We learned how to write properly and create papers in MLA format (though that happened in gifted class as well). We did a ton of vocabulary and grammar work. I think that this is why everyone on Quora is so impressed with my writing, because I learned how to properly write and really expanded my vocabulary.Social Studies was probably my least favorite class of the year. It was really tough because of how the teacher designed it. We did a ton of worksheets that were almost impossible and they accounted for a huge portion of our grade (I still got an A, but was probably 1 of 10 who did). She retired between the 3rd and 4th quarters for family reasons. The way social studies was structured changed then, but it was still a very interesting experience for me.My favorite class(es) of the year were probably the two STEM classes that I took. One was Design and Modeling (basically learning how to use computer design software like Autodesk Inventor) and the other was Automation and Robotics (we created robots with VEX Robotics). These classes were taught by a former middle and high school principal who came out of retirement to teach these classes. He was also the shop teacher. He was very good at what he did, but didn't take any crap from any of his students. I enjoyed his classes so much (I enjoy classes based on how much I learn from them; learning makes it fun) that I decided right then that I wanted to be an engineer; full stop. I am still working out it what area, but that is how well they were taught that by one semester, I took a complete 180 and decided to be an engineer instead of a lawyer.Band got a lot more enjoyable in 7th grade. I switched to playing Tuba (not a big change) and enjoyed it a lot more; getting to play the entire low register. Band is now every day, so I got much better in my playing. I started to love band a lot more. This is similar to the $4,500 St. Petersburg Tuba that I played in 7th and 8th grade:Meanwhile, in my gifted class, things have changed up a bit. Instead of going to a different school one day a week for the class, I now have SEEK (Student Examining and Exploring Knowledge; the name of the Gifted Class) every day as one of my regular classes. It was a lot of fun. We did a lot of research into Immigration (even had a mock trial/debate thing on it) and Community Problem Solving (the affect of social media on kids and teenagers). I did a personal project at the end of the year about the Children's Internet Protection Act and how it requires schools to censor certain websites (they even censored Quora for day). i got a lot of insight into why that is and ow schools go to far in their enforcement of it.This was also the year that I started to run Cross Country. I was an okay runner, but not one of the fastest by far. I also did this in 8th grade, but was injured and sidelined for the last 3 weeks of the season.In Middle School, they gave us iPad Airs to use. These really enhanced our educational experience, but the best thing was that I found my Quora account again and started to write a lot of answers. I started writing in December, but it really picked up in April of that year. Without that iPad, I don't know if I would have found Quora.7th grade was a great year for me, but this is also when I started procrastinating. Everything seemed to be really easy and I could just get it done really fast. I liked being on my iPad watching YouTube and being on Quora. Schoolwork could wait. This was a big mistake on my part, but I always got things done.8th grade was kind of my don't give a crap year, especially by the second semester which just started two weeks ago. I don't know what it is, but after the first semester it has been very, very boring and uninteresting. Still, I will give you my synopsis.I am taking Geometry right now in 8th grade and while it has taught me a few things, there has been a lot of review. While the class is all made up of 8th graders (It is a 9th grade class), it still moves very slowly and can be boring at times. I did a lot of geometry work in my free time in 5th grade, so it all comes very easy to me. I am always hunting for more. It usually only takes 5 minutes for something to be explained to me, and then I am good from there. So, math is still kind of boring.English is a bit different. I couldn't take my gifted class this year (along with a number of other gifted students) because of some scheduling issues, so about 10 of use are sprinkled into an English class together with other English students, the English teacher, and every once in a while, the Gifted teacher. We have been working on identifying themes and how to write properly (which always enrages me because I have been published; I think I know how to write, but whatever). English isn't my favorite, but I definitely have learned some important things.I am taking Spanish this year. My Spanish name is Bruno. We are working on the basics like vocabulary and conjugation. I really love Spanish though as it is easy to understand at the moment, but completely different from anything else that I have done. I also love seeing the connections between it and our own language and it makes me understand English better. I am planning to take as many years of Spanish as I can in the future.Science has been a lot of fun this year. Our teacher is a total nerd, but he also likes to engage with us teenagers and knows how we think. It makes for a really good experience. We learned Space for most of the first semester. I had learned a lot of it during my Astrobiology class, but there were still a few things that were really cool to see work. Right now we are working on Geology, probably my least favorite, even more than Biology, which I despise. We have been doing rock and mineral testing, but I guess that I am not too bad at it. Later we will be learning about weather (YAY!).Social Studies has been really cool. We do a lot of writing in it and analysis, but we were learning about the civil war and all of its aspects. We examined the lead-up, the causes, and what occurred after. We are now focussing on the Reconstruction, which is even more interesting.I took Woodshop this year. We learned all of the basics including hand and power tools. We had to create a CO2 car, a box, and then a final project. My final project was a craftsman footstool for my mom.I still have a bit of sanding, staining, and the application the cushion to do, but it looks really cool now and it turned out better than I had expected.In band, it has gotten a lot harder. We have the same teacher, but the songs are much more difficult to play and there isn't a lot of turn over between performances. I tried out for the high school marching band, and made the Varsity team, so next year I will have to play a Sousaphone. They hurt a lot.8th grade has been a lot easier and a lot more carefree. As I said, I am just doing what I have to because it isn't that hard. I am still a procrastinator, something that I really need to control. However, I am just holding off until high school where the throttle will be turned up.This was a great synopsis of my life, but it really doesn't tell you who I am as a person. As you can see, academics are very important to me. I have always gotten A's (sometimes even A+'s) and school really controls my life, so I was regarded as a very smart kid. This is because I have a thirst for knowledge and up until recently that was the best way to receive knowledge.At school, I have always been a smart allek, but also a stickler for the rules. If they create a rule, I will follow it. Now, I question the rules a lot though. I ask why do we need this. I bring up important concepts. This can be really annoying for people, but I am fine with it.I always try to get administrator attention. I have never been sent to detention or suspended, but I always bring things up. I can sound hostile. I make people angry. I will point things out and they will not like them. It is just who I am. However, I will almost always find a solution.At home, I am very messy. My room is almost never clean. It is a minefield. Whenever I go to school (especially to talk with a teacher), my mom always asks if we are talking about the same person. This is mostly true, however my two personalities have morphed in recent years.So, I was a smart kid who liked to follow rules, gain knowledge, and point things out. I am always the one who finds the loophole. I do not appreciate trivial things and for the most part reviews are unneeded. What is the point of them? Don't they want you to remember? I would be very straight forward with that. If they were, I might walk out. I have done it before. It was my way or the highway.As for political views, I am a Bernie Sanders supporter. I feel that his policies are the best at the moment and will shape our nation. If I had to vote Republican, I would vote as libertarian as possible.I am Brian Blood, an INTJ kid, and this who I am and was as a kid.Footnotes[1] Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church[2] List of states of matter

I hit about a 4th grade elementary school student reading level in 2 years (4 semesters of Japanese Language 1–4 at Moorpark College). That was around 500 Kanji memorization, quite a bit of grammar, and a decent amount of vocabulary.The key to learning Japanese is writing practice, repetition, worksheets, writing Kanji over and over and over again. Get a pen pal from Japan and write back and forth, that helps a lot. It’s been over 10 years so I have lost most of my Japanese language knowledge, so another important fact is that you can lose your 2nd language at anytime if you don’t keep it in practice somewhat regularly.In Japan, High School graduate equivalents typically are supposed to be around 2000+ Kanji literacy to be prepped for University. To be able to read the political section of a newspaper or read ancient Japanese history papers you would need upwards of anywhere from 3000–5000 Kanji literacy and an understanding of very complex rules and combinations. Slang can sometimes utilize proverbs that reference something in a clever way and you won’t really understand it without having it explained to you. Puns can be difficult to get because they can combine an obscure reference to pop culture, the way a kanji looks like another kanji and could be mistaken, and a historical fact… all in the same joke. Japanese humor can be really inaccessible at first.If you are interested in learning, the more immersion the better. Take a course at your local community college and keep going!