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28/02/19
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Originally posted by happydayz:
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When i was going to primary school back in the late 1960's, I had a Female teacher smash me into the desk for not being able to understand long division. It completely shut me down emotionally as i was a child and the brain turns off. It's not that I didn't understand, it's just that the fear of suffering abuse stopped me totally from functioning and as a result the abuse got worse as my maths got worse. I don't think I was alone as other children had dusters thrown at them with their heads as targets, I formed a long friendship with someone in the same boat. All the teachers that did the stuff are dead now. But it had a profound effect upon my trust in human beings in power of position.
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I must add not all my teachers were not so harsh, I had some in later years in high school who were very descent and eventually I broke out of the fear and became very good at Maths. I guess I turned it around.