Things you learnt at school you have never used - ever.


Out geography teacher had a process for making sure everyone got high marks at GSCE geography. For glaciation he would say you can get good marks by just being able to know what everything was and being able to describe it. He came up with the concept that if you looked up in the exam you would always see your class mates, so give everyone a name and said if you couldn't remember look up.

you wouldnt get away with some of them now.

The tallest (craigywatt) was a pyramidal peak.
The edgy person was an arête
the fat kid was zone of accumulation
the gay kid was soft snow
I was truncated spurs,

its daft but it worked and i will never forget them.
who was the drumlin ?
 
How to calculate the gradient of a curve.

I explained to my maths teacher that this was a waste of both of our time and I would never ever use it.
Remember all that shit about bicecting a circle between two different types triangle and all that shite? Totally and utterly useless.

Good job they didn't teach people how household fincances work though, you know, something everyone needs to know.
 
Religious knowledge or religious education.

If they'd taught me that Charlie Hurley was God, i'd have been far more likely to believe it, because he was there, undeniable.

Far more believable than the total bullshit they wasted my time with.

The only silver lining to that particular cloud (the RK lessons) was one of the teachers who took the lesson was a dish. Don't recall her name.
 
Out geography teacher had a process for making sure everyone got high marks at GSCE geography. For glaciation he would say you can get good marks by just being able to know what everything was and being able to describe it. He came up with the concept that if you looked up in the exam you would always see your class mates, so give everyone a name and said if you couldn't remember look up.

you wouldnt get away with some of them now.

The tallest (craigywatt) was a pyramidal peak.
The edgy person was an arête
the fat kid was zone of accumulation
the gay kid was soft snow
I was truncated spurs,

its daft but it worked and i will never forget them.
I know about ox bow lakes, scree and terminal moraine
 
That Bassenthwaite is the only real Lake in the Lake District. The rest are Meres.

It's never even come up in a pub quiz. Bassas
 
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Religious knowledge or religious education.

If they'd taught me that Charlie Hurley was God, i'd have been far more likely to believe it, because he was there, undeniable.

Far more believable than the total bullshit they wasted my time with.

The only silver lining to that particular cloud (the RK lessons) was one of the teachers who took the lesson was a dish. Don't recall her name.
You obviously didn't go to my school, where the RE teacher was an angry lesbian with a weird midlands accent. Yikes.
 

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