Exoparadapsyphobia

I think computers is where all the business is going to be at in the near future, so it's a great thing to learn as much as you can about computers. I however failed at that endeavour, I tried learning HTML and learned quite a lot. I memorized an entire book within a month but I just found it incredibely boring and eventually stopped practicing with it or moving on to something else. But kudos to you guys who study that stuff.

@Alex1_phang3: Probably one of the things I learned about most in school is how to blend in and not to be noticed, some of my friends even thought I'd moved away after a month of having no contact with them in school. No one really notices that I'm ever there, but I like it that way. Maybe this skill can be used to become a spy for the CIA or something? Lol.

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jaam0927

I think I said I wanna take something related with computers
so once again... when am I gonna need biology, chemistry and history? well yeah youll have those classes in university too... but why do I need them if I already knoe wut I want to study?

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anime_being_god

In school many times I find myself doing my school work, when I suddenly stop and think...What will this do for me in life? I have even discussed this subject with my teacher before. For example like history, what will learning about the first president do for me 10 years from now? nothing at all, so I say that school does teach some useful things but a lot of unusable stuff as well.

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Arrianna

Yep, and it is a lousy way to educate someone.

I learned to read and write, mathematics, and art. I didn't learn grammer, spelling, history, geography, or anything else at a school until I was in college. Sure, I passed the tests but that doesn't mean I remembered a thing once the test was over.

My grandfather at the age of 75 could stand up and recite a classical poem from memory that he had learned when he was 12. My grandmother at the age of 70 could barely remember what happened last week but her handwritting was as good as it was when she learned to spell as a child.

In comparison I would have to say, no, I didn't learn anything.

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Esperologist

Well, I did learn some stuff from school. Okay, most of my knowledge is gained from schooling.
However, it wasn't until college that I learned anything other then grammer.

Elementry school told me it was preperations for high-school... and high-school was not what they led me to believe it was.
High-school said they were preparing me for college... and again it was nothing like they said.

College said they were prepairing me for the real world... I'm scared to try.
I'll be trying again in a week or two... this time not over the computer since the sites seem to lie about wanting only internet submited resumes. *insert angry face here.*

deftbeat

yes i think i've learned alot of things from school
but it can't be helped if sometimes we forgot what we have been studying
because its really hard to focus in all of the subjects knowing not all will be applied on the field your going to move on to.

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baikuza

i'm used to learn what i want.. and i want all. but time and energy limit my activities. @ school, i learn many things. but, it is because i do not know anythings. all i know when i was at school is make a great marks.
this make me thing that school is the place where we are used to compete, mainly.

if you ask me about things that are teached at school.. maybe i'll fail to recall them. but, i think if i read those books again i will master it. (~_^)


about the useful or not of what are teached @ school.
yes, some will not be really useful when you take a job/speciality.
then, the matter is what school we take, and does the school programs for the student really efficient for his/her vision in the future.
today, maybe the school do not vary to much. classify it into to categories, general/common school and specialized school. i bet, most of us take the general school (i.e. the "ussual" high school). this school do not satisfy some of us, but yes to the rest. why yes, because that's the only one we need
in order to get advanced at univ. the test from the university or faculty in order to be member or student of it require the basic knowledge from the previous learning activities to get advanced... so, i'll said it is not the fault of the programs. it just the system that bonds us and demands to us about for it.

then, if we really want to make the univ. that can let people in only by one or some subject, that he/she takes at the prev. school, that is related to the fac./subject that offered.. maybe we can make it, but can that univ. maintains by it self? no. or just said make one fac. without univ.... still it won't run longer. why? because a university is uni. that said is one, and fac. is only part of it. all subject is related to the others. once again. we are bond by the system that is made by us and very important to us.

how about them who take specialized school and want to take a fac.?
they need to learn what the common school teached.

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!10~TeSTaMeNtS

my school also does the same thing...but i can answer the exams easily...but about your question...my answer is a yes and a no...yes because i learn a little bit and no becasue some lessons that i have learned i have already forgotten...

FLawEdmiNd

Yes, but you still learned it and you knew about it at one point before you 'forgot.'

The only reason people have troubles with school and the whole shabang is 'cause they can't see the answer, people have difficulties preprocessing all the things teachers tell them because they have no prior knowledge on the subject. Thus making people believe school is unnecessary and too much hassle.

In the world we live in now and quite possibly the world at any point in time, you need to have some kind of prep to get an okay job, to do anything really you have to know something and from somewhere, you should have gotten the power to learn it. Hint, hint…

I do feel that this question is rather silly though, of course people learn things. Everyday you learn some small little thing that you dismiss as it is not usable in the world at large, it is however, still knowledge and by you learning it, you know something more than you did the day before. Schools only up the scale and give you the power to learn many, many small things that you can use later in life.

And, I suppose I should answer this even if it is clear where I stand, yes, yes I do learn things both independently and with the aid of people I know and school, very much so the last.

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hiei9957

my school dont teach u anything. and im in 12th grade and their education is that of 8th grade. and i mean yea im in some sped classes but they could at least teach me how to spell.

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