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

lazygal

For me its:
Calculus
Algebra
An modh coinníollach
Prayers

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.

ICANN

German
Genetics
Saving things onto floppy disks

Gee Bag

Duggy747 wrote: »

How to dissect a rat.

That'll probably come in handy at dinner time after this years budget

marty1985

44leto wrote: »

I Know I know

1014

The battle for Clontarf.

It's good but it's not right. October 14 is what we were looking for, October 14. But you don't go away empty handed, you get a free mug. Give him a big hand ladies and gentlemen, 44leto, there he goes, alright. What a sport.

phasers

Overheal wrote: »

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

In that case, I've been doing algebra since I was 3.Will this get me into MENSA?

Stark

Religion and Irish.

carolmarx

I've used all of it.


I'm very good at table quizzes.

gubbie

phasers wrote: »

In that case, I've been doing algebra since I was 3.Will this get me into MENSA?

The code for nearly anything you use probably had some form of algebra in it

I haven't used any History. And I haven't left a note for someone in French in a long long time.

GaryIrv93

Irish. And most facts I've learned come useful only in a game of Trivial Pursuit :rolleyes:

phasers

gubbie wrote: »

The code for nearly anything you use probably had some form of algebra in it

Ah that doesn't count, it's not like I code that stuff myself

southcentralts

My phone has the internet now

I spent 12 years in school learning what I forgot in a few months and did not use since. While 1% of the knowledge accessible within something I carry around with me all the time, is more then I could learn in a lifetime.

We have the technology today that "learning" as we know it is a little redundant. When you go into a job or job interview they look at your test results but not at your knowledge, and will not expect you to remember complex formulas such as X = minus b +or- the square root of b squared - 4AC all over 2A, they will allow you to look it up online ( almost got it all out but unsure about what was underneath ( 2a), but what a stroke of luck, I happen to have internet access and only had to type "b squared +/" and Google already had the whole thing ready for me ).

But I guess we must sort the wheat from the chaff somehow.

starviewadams

Irish
History of art
Science
Any maths stuff besides the basic stuff ie: adding/subtracting/multiplication/division etc.
French
History
Religion

Carter P Fly

Chemistry, Biology... wait... All of it except english.

kincsem

Attic Greek

I can still say my "ho, he, to".

Feeona

Type. I now have a monkey to do it all for me kjdpaiuhd;iJHPG w yug[r

ball

How to ask to go to the toilet in Irish

IM0

the better question is what DID I use

BBDBB

Feeona wrote: »

Type. I now have a monkey to do it all for me kjdpaiuhd;iJHPG w yug[r

^^"To be or not to be?"

maglite

phasers wrote: »

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

Sure....

Galwayguy35

Gee Bag wrote: »

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




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

She was the most depressing aul biddy in history. Noone wanted to hear about her miserable existence let alone have to know it for the Leaving Cert.

foxinsox

44leto wrote: »

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..............

The Great Fire of London started in 1666

No slaps but 100 lines