most useles class in school

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so you never had any pressure to do classes etc that you felt like you could do without.
you came to school and knew exactly what you wanted, not affected by the school board ?
and so on.

i say, learning factory should be a cooperative industries ruled by the student that know what they are ruling about.

the students on the finals, i think, can make a huge difference.






[edit on 19-2-2010 by telfyr]

The ABC song remains the one and only useful thing I took away from my time in the school system.

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Well of course when I went to school classes were affected by the school board and there was required credits you had to have in order to graduate high school. There are plenty of problems with the education system and the school board.

There were plenty of classes I did not like, that does not mean I found them useless. I can see some people saying PE. At the same time, with obesity the way it is in America, I can see why PE is quite useful. I did not take regular PE at all through high school though, so I can't really answer that.

Someone said typing, which I took in high school and I found to be quite helpful. I could probably type 40-50 wpm before that typing class, but the class taught me to do it correctly with the base keys and what not, and now I type around 100 wpm and actually type for a living, so I have to disagree on that one

So for those that found study hall useless, I'm assuming you got straight A's? I hated homework and I played sports in high school so I really didn't feel like doing homework, so if it didn't get done at school it wasn't getting done...so I personally found study hall quite useful.

I basically can see almost any class being useful so long as there is a decent teacher and a student who wants to learn. I suppose we shall have to agree to disagree

Originally posted by tribewilder
Being forced to take a language that one does not desire to learn in a country that does not require it is indeed...useless...

In my last job interview, I was asked about my level of french education - and because I was able to answer that I'd completed my OAC in French, I was promptly offered a monthly ¥25000 "trilingual bonus". English, French and Japanese.

Never mind the fact that my spoken French is atrocious. I can read it and write it if I need to. I've never used it for anything more intense than a Habs game on Radio Canada.

Those "useless" classes in High School = my car payment in a country I'd never dreamed I'd be living in when I was a teenager, doing a job I didn't even know existed then.

I hated gym class, but I wouldn't call it useless, since it actually got me off my butt and doing physical activity (at least when I wasn't goofing off :p)

For the class that was actually the most useless, here in Alberta it is called Career and Life Management (CALM). Basically, it was a really dumb class where we 'learned' about health, drugs, sex, careers, and that sort of thing, which on the surface sounds good, except that it was all stuff everyone knew before taking the class. It was a 3 credit class required for graduation of high school.

Once I figured out I'd already done enough assignments to pass the class, I didn't turn in anything else for the last month or two :p I got somewhere in the 60s for that course, hehe.

The second most useless class I ever took was English for Engineers in university. I kid you not, the class was about grammar and sentence structure and that sort of thing. I'll admit that it was probably quite useful to the non-native English speakers, but I was born and raised in Canada, so I had no use for it.

at my school we had office applications..it was a mix between business studies and IT...so you could just have done business studies and IT...pointless imo

I always found P.E useless since I wasn't interested in running around sweating. I also found my computers IT program creating class useless because all we did was copy codes out of a purchased C++ book and then run it as a program to get a pass. We didn't actually learn anything and we weren't required to make anything of our own.

Originally posted by telfyr

from young age to you're age now.
what did you really found useful?

That's your not you're.

Perhaps English class could have been more useful.

Also, find not found.



[edit on 20-2-2010 by univac500]

Mandatory Swedish.. And 1 other "extra" language I had to pick for a short while..

At one point I was supposed to learn 4 languages (swedish, english, russian, german) + my own..

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You might be interested in what John Taylor Gatto says :

www.spinninglobe.net...

Now dumb people aren't just ignorant; they're the victims of the non-thought of secondhand ideas. Dumb people are now well-informed about the opinions of Time magazine and CBS, The New York Times and the President; their job is to choose which pre-thought thoughts, which received opinions, they like best. The élite in this new empire of ignorance are those who know the most pre-thought thoughts.

[edit on 20-2-2010 by pai mei]

I didn't really find any class 'useless.' Though I did not like all of my classes, I think one can find merit in everything. Sometimes the curriculum is unnecessary, but it still teaches you to learn, question, and keep discovering outside of the classroom.

Well considering that I have a career in the Scuba diving business, I'm going to have to go with agriculture. I spent all those years learning about plants only to spend most of my life underwater . Unless of course you find seaweed interesting, It was a complete waste of time.

singing and drawing were pretty much useless because nothing of sorts took place during those classes. back where i am from there`s a class called something along the lines of mechanical drawing or drafting. man i used to hate it. because drawing bolts and nuts in mega precision wasnt my idea of fun. now i`d like to take that course again.

My favorite classes were the social sciences, but what I find most useful is introduction to typing and journalism. I use my typing skills every single day. It's something one can use to get a job. What I found least useful was rocket science and all the many statistics classes I had.

Originally posted by pai mei
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You might be interested in what John Taylor Gatto says :

www.spinninglobe.net...

Now dumb people aren't just ignorant; they're the victims of the non-thought of secondhand ideas. Dumb people are now well-informed about the opinions of Time magazine and CBS, The New York Times and the President; their job is to choose which pre-thought thoughts, which received opinions, they like best. The élite in this new empire of ignorance are those who know the most pre-thought thoughts.

[edit on 20-2-2010 by pai mei]

dumb, has become a book on itself, in these days.


[edit on 1-3-2010 by telfyr]

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Make me smile
My dad had a dream in the Netherlands, a real American dream, unaffected by the propaganda of those day`s, so to say.
he did get a virus from those years, called, Harley Davidson, and bought one.

With the hard earned cash of those day`s.
half way it broke down, bad assemblage, so he fixed it.
And proudly got back home.

tech school did him good.

Now, he travels, around the European world, and has a good (close to) home job.
Most of us can`t understand any English or German Etc, that he talks.
And still, somehow, he gets the job done.

keeping hold of a lot of family income security, at least a few 500!
That is a lot of people depending on a man, with almost no schooling at all.
And still they thrive.