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learning new things

kchapman1988

kchapman1988

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this is something that i've been fighting with for some time, while i did not get any qualifications in school i want to learn new things.

the problem with this is that i dont have any idea where to start on each topic "_________for dummies" i would dearly love a skill tree for things to learn. 'these are the basic things to learn or every person should know' leading up to the next 'level' i should most likely go over the secondary school subjects again but has anyone else encountered this ? i dont have the money or time to do courses (i'm trying to build up stock of chainmaille jewelry to sell as a living)

and yes this is ANOTHER new thread i'm starting
 
Many states offer online classes to get a GED. I can't recommend having some basic conventional education highly enough. This way, you can work on your own time, according to your own schedule. If 3 am is the best time for you to work, you can sit with your computer & work at that time. From there, you have many doors open to you. the chain maille jewellery is a great idea since your work is so unique & beautiful.

I always suggest that every person learn how banking/finance/money works. You don't need to become a banker, you just need basic financial knowledge & financial management skills. VERY few people understand anything whatsoever about money & that contributed heavily to the mortgage melt-down in the USA. The banks & lenders could get away with telling people virtually anything!

You can always build knowledge on your own through reading. You have to be selective about your sources. So much of what passes for knowledge is poorly researched nonsense.

A good place to begin is to look at what interests you. Also, think about what areas you know you really have a deficit in & go from there. My deficits are in physics & advanced maths so I intend to work hard on those over the course of the next couple of years.
 
my knowledge base is faulty secondary school level, things started not making any sense then and nothing i could do at the time would help.

maths always turned out wrong, could never remember what things like mean mode and median ment or which was which.

for english i find spelling really difficult , my handwriting is a joke, words and spelling like sean = shawn when said messed me up, essays and comprehention work was impossible, science i couldnt remember anything.

basicly i fell behind as i couldn't understand things at all and stayed in the dark since
 
Pursue what interests you. Libraries are free.

If you need a piece of paper to get a job, try a community college, their fees are the cheapest.

Handwriting is an archaic art. Some elementary schools have stopped teaching it.

Science is more a way of thinking than it is a collection of facts. anyone can learn to think
 
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i need to start over to fix the parts of my knowledge base that got messed up or missed, then i can hopefully follow the levels of difficulty up, not teaching handwriting is stupid, as prevailant as computers are handwriting will still be needed.

this is why i prefer things that go by beginner, intermediate, advanced
 
You're not the only one who went through that. My academic skills pretty much sank after the 6th grade, and everything beyond that was either hit or miss. It might have had something to do with the subject matter becoming more abstract and/or open-ended in the honors classes I was in, and I've got plenty of weaknesses in both depending on the subject.

I'd get a fresh start by trying junior or community college. I know someone already mentioned it, but when your academic skills are rusty like mine and you've forgotten almost everything sometimes you have to start from the ground up again. Part of the trouble with that, however, is laying out a gameplan for your education, and that gameplan will likely involve classes which have absolutely no appeal to you at all whatsoever. At least, that was my problem - trying to succeed in classes which I sucked at horribly because I couldn't do the work expected of me. Just take it a step at a time if need be.
 
does anyone know where i could find a sylabus of what you learn and when? academic wise i mean could read up on it all at the library ... maybe one of the more intelectual members of the forum could ether post a trusted website or write one up? might help those of us that got lost along the way :)
 
kchapman1988 said:
does anyone know where i could find a sylabus of what you learn and when? academic wise i mean could read up on it all at the library ... maybe one of the more intelectual members of the forum could ether post a trusted website or write one up? might help those of us that got lost along the way :)
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Where do you want to start?
 
Go to this website and watch some of the videos let me know if it is a good start.

Khan Academy

The more elementary math is at the bottom just above art history and below american civics.. Start there.
 
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far too high up, it makes my head hurt and i dont even understand a lot of the terms. :timebomb: mental explosion.

secondary school here stops at 16 currently and everything stopped making sense a good few years before that, i had trouble with multiplying large numbers together ffs. :'(
 
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Are you in the UK kchapman? You could try the open university, I've done a few courses with them, or your local college should have lessons available to adults who need to brush up on their maths, english etc, although it does tend to be at gcse level but it would be worth checking out incase they do a more basic course.
 
@Kchapman:

Please do not beat yourself up over what level you must begin at. There's no shame in beginning at the beginning. It isn't a competition & there are a great many people out there trying to get along in life who are functionally illiterate! My province offers all kinds of adult basic literacy classes & they're always quite full. Some people just never got the chance when they were young (undiagnosed learning challenges, lousy teaching, family crises, mal or under nutrition...) & by the time they hit their late teens, the more pressing need was to take any job they could get. Some never learned much because nobody realized they couldn't see or hear properly! Glasses &/or a hearing aid would've been life altering for them.

Just start where you are, work as you're comfortable & move up steadily & build confidence.
 
@Kchapman: Try the local 6th form college-there may be an adult institute in your town that caters for adults who got left behind-they will start at the beginning and assess your difficulties/capabilities from there. My local institute did this for me and they flagged my dyslexia and learning problems-With their help I managed to get to university at the age of 44
 
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