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

[hellkat]

We had a tennis teacher who everyone (except me) was a little bit in love with (it's a girls school thing ) .
He wore aviator shades and a sunshade.

He was always tanned from being out in the sun all day doing tennis.
So when he blinked, you could see his eyelids were white.

I used to crease up with giggling at that.


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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[hellkat]

Are boys at single sex schools constantly on the horn?
One assumes they must be.
All the boys in the opposing school to mine seemed only interested in throwing our boaters (yes) out the bus windows or hogging the pinball machine in the chip shop.

All the girls in my school were constantly on the case about boys.
I found them vaguely entertaining, but none of the (occasional) male teachers (or priests! ) were of the least sexual interest to me. I found my diversions outside of school

We had a science teacher who was ancient, I am sure they employed him simply to keep the girls at bay, but when they discovered he was too old to flirt with (and I mean OLD, like he must have been 70 if he was a day), then they argued with him instead, proper bitches they were.
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[Joncrete Cungle]

[M.C]

[biker7]

I set up a primary school computer suite as part of my role as a Deputy Head. Little did we realise in the 90's how useful those IT skills would be! Most kids learn to read at school and how to do basic maths. Some curriculum stuff is of limited use, agreed but for the large part, school gives you the tools to succeed. Whether we choose to use all the tools.....that varies! As a working class boy I was fortunate enough to get a university education. Ask girls in deprived countries if they think school is a waste of time. Education is a gift. Perhaps in the West, we don't always appreciate its value.
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[oldpink]

I may be an exception but I actually enjoyed a lot of my years in school
yeah sure my musical interest started after I left school
but my love for physic's maths engineering and woodwork made school bearable for me
I was lucky enough to have some decent teachers that actually got through to me and its helped a lot in my later life inc the fact I'm currently at the age of 53 going back to Uni to do a degree in planetary and astro physics to peruse my hobby of astronomy and take it to the next level

I also did an open University degree in radio electronics's in my 20's when I was active in the Ham radio scene and passed both theory and practical in the top 3%
that took about a year of night school and a lot of home study to get to that level
also helped in my quest for work as I had a job programming taxi radio's and introducing the modern job allocation systems we have now

to me education is never ending and something I will never stop
your never too old to learn
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[chickenstrip]

[oldpink]

[ws4936]

The majority of it. It's a shame that school isn't based on more practical elements of real world leanings, like how money works or loans...taking out a mortgage, etc. my boy is starting out on his own and it's shocking how little he knows. He needs a good kick up the backside.


This guy has the right idea ::Clicky::
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[Skudd]

Schools should teach, English, Maths, First Aid, How to swim, Banking/mortgage/savings. How to read a utility bill, The highway code, How to drive, cooking, cleaning, basic DIY. The rest is all filler.
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

[ZX-7R]

[andyscooter]

we did design and realisation
graphic design
and craft design and technology as three different subjects

all have been useful in the real world to be fair

dropped history for geography as hated history at the time but am interested now (just not the shit they taught you at school)

and took French instead of german as French teacher was fit

also French exams where easy as it was done through the year rather then in one exam so learn a bit test on it and forget it when you learn the next bit

biology wasn't much use really and ive never used any of the experiments in chemistry in real life either
physics I hated but use it quite a bit really without realising

the two re teachers were pissheads so re was always just a laugh I used to go out drinking with them when I got older as well

maths was a bit of a waste at school as the teacher was a bit of a pushover
the class before managed to lock her in the stationary cupboard so we left her there and they only realised at lunchtime when she didn't show up in the staff room
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[M.C]

[Alpineandy]

[.....]

I remember being particularly fascinated during the geography lessons about crofting in the Scottish highlands.

[Bricktop]

[Bricktop]

[DrSnoosnoo]

I stayed at school til I completed it.

I have used Science, Maths, suppose some English language because I can rite init and erm... well.

Woodwork, I was shite.

Electronics, didn't mind that, did A -level too.

Geography, unless I've been there or want to get there, norrarsed.

History, I remember slavery because we could use the word and some WW1 stuff because we watched Blackadder Goes Forth.

RE, because we had loads of muslims we got told how we need to respect all of the contradictory versions of a God that idiots believe.

PE, I was (am) gangly, ginger and asthmatic. I was (am) mega ...

Art, I don't do drawing. We'd get homework, a biography of an Artist that we had to re-write, in our own words ... wut? I was told off because I didn't do some drawings around the writing to make it artistic. fhook dat.

Cooking, got missus now. Prior to missus; pasta and tuna kept me alive.
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[Rogerborg]

[AshWebster]

On the flip side I wish I'd learned more languages.

Recently I took an American girl out for a date and she knew Japanese, Russian and Mexican.

I was very intimidated and very attracted at the same time. I've got a decent job yet I felt very ... stupid... next to her.
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Ford KA ---> 93' MR2 ---> 94'MR2 ---> 98' Subaru WRX STI Ver 3 (track car)

[Alpineandy]

[M.C]

[Mark_UK]

In primary school in the 70's we learned to knit. I can honestly say that was the most useless thing I ever learned. If I ever find myself in a doomsday SHTF scenario, I'll have nice socks though.

French and German - Nope. Never used it since.

English Lit we had to read Jane Eyre FFS

Computers in the 80's. The only useful thing I learned in 2 years was programming the computers in WHSmith to do this:
10 PRINT "Fuck Off";
20 GOTO 10

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[AngiBear]

The process of osmosis where water moves from a high water concentration to a low water concentration through a semipermeable membrane!

My Biology teacher was my first major crush as I fell for his brain power but he was nothing much to look at. He had written and published over 15 books at the time and I loved telling my friends who were at other schools that the textbooks they were reading from were written by him. I used to look after his stick insects at lunchtime *NOT a euphemism*