#WorstSchoolSubjects #UselessTeachings #SchoolCurriculum #EducationSystem
Have you ever found yourself sitting in a classroom wondering, “What is the most fucking useless thing that they teach in school?” 🤔 We’ve all been there. The education system is supposed to prepare us for the real world, but sometimes it feels like we’re learning things that have no practical value outside of the classroom. In this article, we’ll explore some of the most pointless teachings in schools and discuss why they might not be as useful as we think.
### The Most Fucking Useless Thing They Teach in School:
1. **Trigonometry**: Unless you’re pursuing a career in a field that requires a deep understanding of mathematical concepts, like engineering or physics, chances are you’ll never use Trigonometry in your day-to-day life.
2. **Cursive Handwriting**: In this digital age, where most communication is done via emails and text messages, the importance of cursive handwriting has greatly diminished.
3. **Memorizing Dates and Facts**: While history is an important subject that can teach us valuable lessons from the past, memorizing specific dates and facts without understanding the context behind them can seem pointless.
4. **Grammar Rules**: While it’s important to have a basic understanding of grammar, spending hours memorizing obscure rules that most people aren’t even aware of seems like a waste of time.
5. **Chemistry Equations**: Unless you plan on becoming a chemist or scientist, the complex equations and formulas taught in chemistry class may not be relevant to your future career.
### Why Are These Teachings Considered Useless?
1. **Lack of Practical Application**: Many of the subjects mentioned above lack real-world application and fail to prepare students for life beyond the classroom.
2. **Rapidly Changing Skills**: In a fast-paced world where technology is constantly evolving, teaching outdated skills can hinder students from adapting to new advancements.
3. **One-Size-Fits-All Approach**: The education system often adopts a one-size-fits-all approach, where students are expected to learn the same curriculum regardless of their interests or career goals.
4. **Focus on Grades Over Skills**: The emphasis on grades and standardized testing can lead to a focus on rote memorization rather than fostering critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
### How Can Schools Improve?
1. **Real-World Application**: Schools can incorporate more real-world examples and scenarios into the curriculum to help students understand the practical application of the material they’re learning.
2. **Relevant Skills**: Emphasizing skills that are relevant to today’s workforce, such as critical thinking, communication, and adaptability, can better prepare students for the future.
3. **Personalized Learning**: Adopting a personalized learning approach that caters to individual student needs and interests can help students develop their strengths and pursue their passions.
4. **Project-Based Learning**: Encouraging project-based learning opportunities where students can apply their knowledge in a hands-on setting can enhance retention and engagement.
In conclusion, while there may be aspects of the school curriculum that seem useless or irrelevant, it’s important to remember that education is a complex system with many factors at play. By addressing the shortcomings of the current education system and implementing innovative strategies, schools can better prepare students for success in the ever-changing world. So, next time you find yourself questioning the value of what you’re learning in school, remember that there is always room for improvement and growth.
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To blindly follow the authority
Nothing really
We are really spoiled as a society in that they literally give us free education for years of our developing lives in many topics and fields, and we turn face and say school is fucking useless and annoying, there are even kids who get a bad attitude about it and just won’t go, and fail out because they don’t want to try, etc. When there are other countries in the world who don’t get access to the education resources we have and miss out on it, so they don’t know anything, don’t get any skills at all that they can carry into possible jobs in the future
For example, many of us take for granted the ability to read, write, do basic math, all of which we learn in school at young ages, then we get around 12-13 years of things like this, and in later teenage years we get advanced courses that prepare us for higher education, even elective courses that we could take for things like technical courses or trades, and then we will go and spit on the education system that was just given to us
As a maths teacher, this thread hurts..
ITT: A bunch of people who have no idea what it’s like to live in the real world, where you do, in fact, need a fuck ton of the things you learn in school.
Square dancing. Yes, this was a thing
This thread makes me weep for the future of our country.
The tongue/taste map. Not only useless, but incorrect.
Hot take. Not every single second has to be spent on things “for the real world”
Learning math. Reading. Even the recorder. These are all things that exercise different parts of your mind. I would NOT be in my comfortable position right now if I made a B-line for it. The brain has a lot of criss-crossing, and the more general knowledge you acquire, the more you’re able to cross reference and figure things out by association.
Not to mention the engagement aspect. I admit, some things are necessary and a bit tedious. Not everything should be fun games and activities. But you can’t ignore the research that personal interest and engagement is directly related to motivation to study.
Edit, adding: As someone mentioned below, we must also learn HOW to learn.
“If you are being bullied, just say stop! 🤓☝️”
Not one student is the same so I don’t think there is a useless class per say. Math may seem pointless to others while others future careers depends heavily on it.
There is certainly more “useful” classes such as shop class and carpentry. Learning simple life lessons such as changing a tire or how to do basic renovations are lessons that save you thousands of dollars.
You will learn lots of useless shit your whole life you will never know when you need the useless info. You get older and info starts to get pushed out of your brain so jam as much useless shit in there as possible and hopefully that’s what gets pushed out first and retain the good stuff, or so I’m told lol
I learned cursive and was told that colleges would only accept my work if it was in cursive. Guess who wrote all his papers on word document?
Contrary to most people’s experiences, I have actually used algebra in a real life situation.
I have never, on the other hand, had occasion to diagram a sentence in real life.
Dancing
When i was in the school system (im only 25) i remember the teachers always saying that when we grew up we wouldnt always have a calculator at hand….. Ohhh boy were they wrong
I think the dumbest thing they tried to teach us was school spirit. Having to sit through pep rallies and cheer on the sports teams that you honestly don’t care about was a huge waste of time. The only reason anyone was excited about it was it got us out of class.
Square dancing
I’ll say square dancing.
The way they teach rote memorization instead of actually understanding the material. This is especially true when everyone has a smartphone. More emphasis should be placed on things you can’t look up on your phone.
I wouldn’t say anything is useless? I think it’s more a case of knowledge retention. Educating the young minds of tomorrow on all kinds of things will broaden their skill sets in ways sometimes unrelated to the actual subjects they teach?
It’s just an introduction to the actual benifits of enlightenment of having an educated mind. Rather than just total ignorance on a subject? It’s usually not until adults start adding whatever political or societal biases they have is it a problem?
I used to be of the opinion that all learning was useful and exercises the mind. It turns out that it can do more harm than good if you do it wrong.
The most useless thing taught in school is not the subjects themselves but the underlying message in the USA is that school is about sports and socializing while education is just window dressing and that we should have pride in monolingual ignorance.
I value everything that I have learned in my life, just from the exposure you learn a lot, let alone when you’re encouraged and guided well.
I’m sad that I wasn’t taught how to regulate emotions but to ignore them because I needed to solve equations and identify nouns and verbs.
Not to stand up to bullies. Oddly enough, it does teach the valuable life lesson not to trust authority figures.
They mostly taught us to ask permission in order to use the bathroom
Learning how to learn is useful. Learning new things develops neuropathways and allows you to learn new and different things in the future. You may never need physics but learning physics allows you to develop thought and apply it to new things.
That being said, the 5 paragraph essay.
Not a lot of it is useless. Even shit that you don’t have to think about after graduating like Biology, Chemistry and Physics can help you filter out scams and misinformation, or at the very least make you say, “That don’t sound right. I have to look it up.”
As a social studies teacher in HS, I’m concerned for the future generations.
Do you all know that there are case studies that show evidence of new neuronic connections made in the brain based on students learning a various amount of subjects. Every subject we learn, every class we take, every lesson we endure helps the brain create these new connections that advance our capability of problem solving and finding solutions. Being taught math isn’t “useless.” I’m sure a majority of people don’t plan on becoming an engineer, scientist, doctor, accountant, etc. but the process of learning those skills fundamentally helps people become more efficient and creative as they grow.
Social studies gives people the means to reflect on their critical thinking ability. The Who, What, Where, When and How are important to create that foundation, but it’s the Why that develops the brain’s skillset in decision making and comprehension.
Math gives people the means to quickly solve problems that are presented to us.
English gives people the means to breakdown our language and communication which helps express feeling. Have you ever experienced a time where you couldn’t find the word to express yourself, and then you hear a word that you learn the definition of and it becomes common diction you use everyday?
These are just quick breakdowns of several subjects, but there is a purpose to education. Although the system in the U.S. is not supporting the masses in the past couple years, I believe the next generation will be able to push for a new learning curve that will break boundaries we haven’t seen in centuries.
I can’t think of much. I mean not every single little thing was useful, but in general all the experiences taught me something.
Except reading the Scarlet Letter, that thing was fucking awful both times. There are so many great classics, why do we waste time on Nathaniel Hawthorne?
Many would argue American History is very skewed and full of inaccuracies. Those same people are now trying to rewrite it based on their desire to see “change”.
“Duck and cover” back in the day
I still remember 3.1415926535897932384626 from 7th grade math class. There’s no possible reason you ever would need more than the first couple digits of pie.
22 digits is enough for circles the size of *the observable universe*.
Standardized testing. Soo much school time wasted in these tests that did nothing at all other than checked some boxes for admin.
And square dancing.
Schools are NOT real world simulators. Not everything should be directly applicable. Learning, real learning, involves a self-confrontation with how you think and is difficult. Schools ARE training centers for HOW to think and learn in a messy, complicated, uncertain world.
You would fall asleep just as fast learning about taxes or how to rent an apartment or make a monthly budget as you did in geometry. Stop pretending otherwise.
That whole DARE thing was not only stupid, it was pure hypocrisy.
Reading through this thread has brought me to a couple realizations.
A) The comments criticizing school are most likely people still in school.
B) Said people do not understand the real purpose of education, which is: foundational learning, muscle memory for foundational concepts, and to spark the imagination that might lead to a satisfying career SO YOU CAN FUCKING EAT AND HAVE SHELTER once you leave your parents’ home.
I mean, I didn’t like every class I took, but I use algebra every time I go shopping to calculate the savings on that big sale item.
Oh, and one last personal opinion on life skills. Parents should be teaching those. We taught our kids money management, budgeting, how to balance a checking book, how to do their own taxes, oil changes, how to change a flat tire, brake pads and rotors, how to cook simple meals…I can go on and on. They didn’t learn any of that at school. Not learning life skills is a parenting fail, not a school one.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Memorizing specific dates in history often feels futile. While understanding historical events and their significance is crucial, focusing on exact dates without context or understanding the broader implications can seem pointless, especially when such information is easily accessible online.
It really annoys me reading these comments. So many people seem to think that because something they learnt didnt benefit them, that its useless for everyone. Thats not how life works. I learnt a lot of stuff that I no longer use, but I also constantly use other stuff that I was taught.
School isnt teaching the individual, they are teaching groups who go into different industries.
Homework every day.
Remain optimistic. Learning math has an impact on people in ways that go well beyond math. They most likely aren’t even aware of how it has affected their capacity for reasoning and thought.