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What did you learn in school that you've never used?

lazygal

For me its:
Calculus
Algebra
An modh coinníollach
Prayers

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stephen_k

How to hang someone from a coat hook by their jocks...

Feisar

I work as a QS so I suppose the likes of History and Geography are fairly redundant.

Is there anything wrong with having a well rounded education though?

ThinkAboutIt

Everything.
Honestly.

clintondaly

weaving

Overheal

My brain does calculus every time I drive the car.

And if you don't use algebra what happens when you go shopping? Do you just buy more than you have money for?

Grimebox

You have to try these things to know if they will resonate with you

ejmaztec

Corporal punishment.

foxyboxer

Irish.

Jimoslimos

ejmaztec wrote: »

Corporal punishment.

No, that is actually employed now and again

sealgaire

Religion

mike65

The volume of a sphere.

Sleepy

Irish, Religion, much of the Junior Cert history course (since most of it is bull**** or at least heavily Republican in it's viewpoint)

marty1985

There's probably a lot of stuff I learned that I have completely forgotten or never used, but education is never a waste of time, children.

AboutTwoFiddy

Overheal wrote: »

My brain does calculus every time I drive the car.

And if you don't use algebra what happens when you go shopping? Do you just buy more than you have money for?

Sussssh!

English was a waste of time, neva use it. Oh and geography...physics, chemistry..tons of krap stuff like.

ToddyDoody

Most of the leaving cert syllabi.. The junior cert, a fair bit aswell. I really dont get why they teach what they do.. Its like as if they feel they have to teach something so they stick to what they've always taught. The exceptions are english :the ability to communicate well via the written word) and french (need to know about other cultures, and may use it in future.. To sound classier than you) but in terms of the others, junior level will do and you'd be better off with psychology, philosophy, art, technology, music.. The right person with the wrong method is better than the wrong person with the right method so train people to be better people (or at least use modern technology to provide the option cost effectively) which can be better done with more liberal subjects *snort*

Chuck Stone

I learned how to be a pliable citizen and to not question hierarchy.

They done good.

phasers

To be honest I don't use anything I learned after Primary School.

Overheal wrote: »

And if you don't use algebra what happens when you go shopping? Do you just buy more than you have money for?

Reading the price of something and checking if you have enough money is hardly Algebra. Personally, I've been able to do that long before I started school.

Gee Bag

What life was like for auld wans on the Blasket Islands a century ago..............

......................Damn you Peig!

BBDBB

how to play "you show me and I'll show you" with a ten year old

Born to Die

How to make a weather vane, the stress I was put under to complete this pointless exercise for my intermediate cert was ridiculous.

Every ounce of my being rebelled against it.

Davidson2k9

All maths except the obvious basics like addition etc.

Irish

Poetry ****e

44leto

I got six slaps and 50 lines

"The battle of hastings was fought in 1066"

For talking and not paying attention during that lesson.

Nobody in my entire life has ever asked me when was the battle of Hastings. I have still a lot of time left, perhaps, "now 44leto for 1 million euros when was the battle of Hastings..............

marty1985

Spellings can be predicted by my iphone so learning to spell was such a waste of time.

Duggy747

How to dissect a rat.

I'm just aching to open something up

*twitch*

ziggy23

pythagoras theorem
Using a bunsen burner

marty1985

44leto wrote: »

Nobody in my entire life has ever asked me when was the battle of Hastings. I have still a lot of time left, perhaps, "now 44leto for 1 million euros when was the battle of Hastings..............

Now 44leto, for one million euro, on what date in 1066 was the battle of Hastings?

Gee Bag

BBDBB wrote: »

how to play "you show me and I'll show you" with a ten year old

I thought that would have been the most practical thing you learned in the seminary.

Sleepy

Gee Bag wrote: »

What life was like for auld wans on the Blasket Islands a century ago..............

......................Damn you Peig!

The hatred most people have for that book make me so glad I dropped to Pass and read Preacher instead...

44leto

marty1985 wrote: »

Now 44leto, for one million euro, on what date in 1066 was the battle of Hastings?

I Know I know

1014

The battle for Clontarf.

Overheal

phasers wrote: »

Reading the price of something and checking if you have enough money is hardly Algebra.

And yet it is, you're just balancing an equation by selecting things you want to buy and using them as your variables.