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


I remember we spent a whole 1 hour lesson in french learning how to say the alphabet. Every letter apart from W X and Y were identical pronunciation to english. What a waste of everyone's time
 
Latin, Artesian wells and Algebra!!Probably been mentioned but as Billy Connolly famously said "why learn Algebra? I'll never go there"
 
I can still remember the prayer from primary school. If that's not indoctrination, I don't know what is

Dunno whats happened here. ^^^^^ :lol:


School swimming lessons, learning Butterfly. wtf? No use to man nor beast... A bit like French.
 
Dunno whats happened here. ^^^^^ :lol:


School swimming lessons, learning Butterfly. wtf? No use to man nor beast... A bit like French.

I'm a Humanist. It annoys me that I can remember something I was made to repeat at Primary School but not remember something a lot more useful!
 
Metalwork. My school was into equal oppotunities back in the day, so girls did woodwork and metalwork and lads did cookery. Looking back I wish I'd got into it and then into jewellery making, 15yr old me didn't see the potential.
 
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.
It’s not about using this information in the future tho. It’s about understanding if you have the type of brain that is able to calculate these sort of things.

Agree that time could be better spent on more useful topics tho. We learned NOTHING about tax, interest, credit cards, savings, mortgages etc which would’ve been hugely beneficial as an adult.
 
What is interesting now is, that they really don't need to teach most of this shit any more. Just give everyone a device with Google on it, and close the schools.
Save the entire education budget.
Are you listening Kwasi?

See above 🤣🤣🤣^^^^^^

I don’t agree with this. Certainly access to all the information ever needed has changed the world, but humans need to know how to access and use the info. If there’s no formal schooling, then everyone is an expert at everything they Google.
 
Pretty much all of mathematics, science and engineering would be impossible without them

The more maths you do the more it is about letters and less and less about numbers.
Basic maths like this is how you figure out a good deal in a shop when comparing different sizes of packages.

I use that stuff all the time in real life. Unlike geometry, which, when the time comes, you just figure it out as you go anyway ime.
German. I liked German at school, was good at it. But I’ve been to Germany quite a lot and never once found a situation where I actually needed to speak it :lol:
Same.
Looking back, its Spanish that would be been far more useful. I've barely been anywhere that either English or Spanish wouldnt have done the trick.

Obviously I've spent little time in France, and even when I have, English was largely fine.
 
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It’s not about using this information in the future tho. It’s about understanding if you have the type of brain that is able to calculate these sort of things.

Agree that time could be better spent on more useful topics tho. We learned NOTHING about tax, interest, credit cards, savings, mortgages etc which would’ve been hugely beneficial as an adult.
I agree it proved something I could NOT do.

I was hoping that the education system would have been able to discern I did not possess a flair for mathematics by that point in my development. They could have left me to study the stuff I excelled at but no they insisted I continue the fruitless pursuit of gradients and quadratic equations.
 

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