Stuff you learned at school that has never been of any use.

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[hellkat]

[Pjay]

[haroman666]

[M.C]

[FretGrinder]

I learned that any exam that I took wasn't a test of knowledge in ay way shape or form.

It was a test of memory.

If you had a poor memory then you were fucked. Royally fucked.

Thankfully, when I was taking my GCSE's in 1999, coursework was a mandatory part of the curriculum.
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[M.C]

[stinkwheel]

For the record. I got a band 1 A grade (the highest possible and best in my class) in my higher English exam. I answered the literature paper on a book I had never read at all and on a poem I had read once, two years previously.

My teacher was furious because she knew full well I hadn't read any of the specified texts and had spent the year doodling in a jotter and voicing the oppinion that whole subject was an exercise in confidently expressed bullshit.
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[Alpineandy]

There's very little I learnt that I've never used and plenty I wish I'd paid much more attention to (especially languages).
Having said (typed) that, I should point out that for over half my working life there wasn't an Internet (and when it arrived, there wasn't always easy access), and I didn't have a mobile phone, let alone a smart phone.

If I had to choose the least useful, then probably stuff like Plant Biology and chemistry, but even for those subjects I've been able to tell young nephews/nieces about some stuff when they've asked.

By far the most useful thing was Algebra which at the time seemed like the least useful, but it's about problem solving and I've had years of that...
As for standard Maths, my mental kills improved enormously when I started playing Darts in the local....
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[doggone]

Log tables here too, we spent hours learning how to do *something* with them in the 70s and still no idea what it was for.

[Alpineandy]

[Rogerborg]

[TheSmiler]

Russian history i didn't care about it when i was in school. Didn't care during GCSE's. An all being well won't care about it in the future.
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[Howling Terror]

For me it was music lessons. I had no interest in what year Sibelius died, nor did I show a flair for the glockenspiel.

I didn't even know what type of music Mr Hurst the teacher liked but I'm guessing it didn't contain guitars.
A ripe young brain like mine would've appreciated how to string and tune an instrument, or learn about impedance and recording techniques, publishing, copyrights and organisations like the PRS.

I was a twat in music and religious education lessons until aged 13, then didn't bother with school much apart from the exams.

Hated art too, because I was crap with the mediums they used. Can't draw, paint, sculpt, throw clay.

Crap at metalwork and woodwork too but good at stabbing things.

I was too young to be at school, I apologise to my teachers.
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[M.C]

[trevoriv]

At uni I studied (amongst other things) both medieval English and post Napoleonic rural violence in east Anglia.

Always comes in handy...
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[Suntan Sid]

Quadratic equations, never ever needed once!

Geometry, spent the vast majority of my working life as a draughtsman, never came up!

RE.

What was really annoying, all the unteachable, disruptive bastards, got to go fishing instead of certain lessons! I had to wait till school had finished for the day to do that!

Music, well I was taught by my dad, from an early age, how to read music and play the trumpet/cornet. By the time I was 13 I was one of the solo cornet players, (top dog), in a local brass band.
I headed off to high school, where I was told, surely you must need more lessons.
I was told to bring in some music which I would play for the brass tutor, I picked the trickiest piece I knew and played it. The tutor said don't come back!
The other music teacher wanted me to play in the school orchestra. In what I consider to be one of my best moments in high school, I told the music teacher that her orchestra "wasn't good enough", she didn't speak to me for the next 5 years, RESULT!
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[Alpineandy]

[Copycat73]

Geography :- Native Americans Wiped Out With Europeans Diseases .. the various forms of the clapp takin a heavy toll ..
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[Joncrete Cungle]

A mate of mine did some descriptive writing for English coursework, the teacher marked it as B and gave it back to him. He wrote a totally different piece, submitted that and got an A for it. I printed out a copy of his B graded work at the end of the year as the coursework deadline loomed and put my name on it and handed it in to the same teacher, who marked it as a C with my name on it.

I am terrible at art and never bothered with it, however the art teacher was fit. One week our homework was to draw a portrait of someone famous. I found a magazine cover with an A4 sized picture of Va'aiga Tuigamala on it. So I cheated, traced it on thin plain paper and handed it in. For the art teacher to criticise it and claim his ears and nose where not in the right place on his face. When I had traced a photograph of him.

The main thing I learned was not to trust teachers.

Similar thing happened at college when our Geography teacher got some of the previous years coursework out for us to look at. I found an A graded piece of work that was the same task I had been given. So I nicked it, copied it, added the bits in that the teacher had highlighted as missing. Got a C for that.

[andyscooter]

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Can CDT become a thing



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[M.C]

[Tracer1234]

Learning how to wander round with a clip board and survey in a random village to pester people.
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[hellkat]