The first and main reason: a lot depends on the teacher.
Are you studying with a teacher or self-studying? If you’re studying with a teacher, it’s crucial that their teaching style matches yours. A teacher doesn’t necessarily need to have a certificate or a university degree. What matters is their approach to teaching.
I didn’t like physics.
From fifth to ninth grade, I couldn’t understand this complex subject, while my peers deftly solved physics problems. What problems, if I couldn’t even grasp the laws?
But as soon as we moved and I went to a different school, I met an amazing person—a physics teacher.
For him, physics was both a game and a serious subject. He explained things I hadn’t noticed, which were somehow related to physics. In short, everything that surrounds us and everything we do is physics.
After that, of course, I didn’t become an A student (I never was and never wanted to be), but I even started getting Bs, because I developed a strong interest. This was only because the teacher changed. True, my teacher was friendly to everyone, and that’s also his merit. Shedding the stardom of a PhD or even a professor of science and becoming a down-to-earth mentor, and even a friend in some ways. I’ve never seen such openness, ease, and simplicity in any teacher.
The same thing happened with geography.
I skipped geography when it was taught by a teacher with a sense of humor I couldn’t understand (a malicious sarcasm toward children). And how I literally absorbed everything that another teacher, simple and open, kind and caring, said about the same subject at a rural school. I learned all the world’s capitals in a week. I also found the continents very interesting, as well as the countries with their sights and the diversity of their peoples.
German, my favorite language in high school, never got beyond the 4th and 5th grades (incidentally, the only subject I had consistently). All because I liked the teacher. Not only did she speak Russian with an accent (she’s half-German), giving her voice a foreign lilt, but she also explained complex things in simple terms.
When I changed schools, German became fascist for me. I didn’t like the next teacher at all, and I simply listened indifferently, wrote, and didn’t bother memorizing useless texts.
Yes, you can say that your teacher was weak or strong, but only the student decides whether their teacher is strong or not.
That’s what the role of a teacher means to a student.
So, when you catch yourself thinking, “I don’t like this or I’m tired of it,” check if you have the right teacher.
If the process has slowed down or is stalled, change your teacher!
Have you studied with different teachers in the same subject? Which teacher did you like the most?
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