Sometimes it seems that way...but you need to stay focused on the idea that School is learning discipline-irregardless on the type of Subject material. True...I may never use much more than Grade 6 Level Math in my everyday life...but on many occasions-it was well worth knowing the upper level math to deal with a situation! School doesn't teach Common Sense or how to do your Tax Return or plan your Family Budget. But it does give you the means to think about and reason properly with the "everyday norms" that you encounter! Simply by exercising your mind with lessons and challenges. Your brain works better the more it is used,and if you don't use it-you'll lose it! When I was much younger, I didn't feel much differently than you feel now! Being older now,I feel much more differently on the issue. Could I ever learn to operate this computer,if I did not have some of the basic skills learned in school??? Probably not!!! School is also a setting in which you learn to work with your peers in problem solving and social skills,that you'll definately need to learn for when you join the Workforce! This will depend also on the kind of occupation that you wish to pursue,and the so-called "irrelevant" things,may be just what you need to have-in order to work in that faculty! Take a tip from Einstein...Everything is Relative!
Maybe some courses but the older I am I realize for example that I use Physics rules every single day. (Whether in a car where each action has an equal and opposite reaction or boiling water over on the stove) Then Math ( measurements and weight and Chemistry are always present in the kitchen also. Good English composition is invaluable on and off the job as it presents you as a intelligent person with a good vocabulary. History tells you what not to repeat in the future ( like the Crusades hundreds of years ago is being repeated in Iraq now) The courses I think are irrelevant are the fluffy ones like self-esteem, dancing, art since if you have a desire and tendency you can figure those out on your own.
What they are really supposed to be teaching in schools is not the subject matter, but rather concentration, memory, research skills, thinking ability, aesthetic sense, self-discipline, curiosity, the joy of learning and developing your own philosophy of life, and the ability to pay attention to your fellow human beings at the hour of their greatest need. All of these are very relevant to life outside of school. But not all schools succeed in teaching such things.
It depends classes like consumer math were great to me...I learned how to do my own taxes and such....however there are certain classes I believe students can do without
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Sometimes it seems that way...but you need to stay focused on the idea that School is learning discipline-irregardless on the type of Subject material. True...I may never use much more than Grade 6 Level Math in my everyday life...but on many occasions-it was well worth knowing the upper level math to deal with a situation! School doesn't teach Common Sense or how to do your Tax Return or plan your Family Budget. But it does give you the means to think about and reason properly with the "everyday norms" that you encounter! Simply by exercising your mind with lessons and challenges. Your brain works better the more it is used,and if you don't use it-you'll lose it! When I was much younger, I didn't feel much differently than you feel now! Being older now,I feel much more differently on the issue. Could I ever learn to operate this computer,if I did not have some of the basic skills learned in school??? Probably not!!! School is also a setting in which you learn to work with your peers in problem solving and social skills,that you'll definately need to learn for when you join the Workforce! This will depend also on the kind of occupation that you wish to pursue,and the so-called "irrelevant" things,may be just what you need to have-in order to work in that faculty! Take a tip from Einstein...Everything is Relative!
Maybe some courses but the older I am I realize for example that I use Physics rules every single day. (Whether in a car where each action has an equal and opposite reaction or boiling water over on the stove) Then Math ( measurements and weight and Chemistry are always present in the kitchen also. Good English composition is invaluable on and off the job as it presents you as a intelligent person with a good vocabulary. History tells you what not to repeat in the future ( like the Crusades hundreds of years ago is being repeated in Iraq now) The courses I think are irrelevant are the fluffy ones like self-esteem, dancing, art since if you have a desire and tendency you can figure those out on your own.
What they are really supposed to be teaching in schools is not the subject matter, but rather concentration, memory, research skills, thinking ability, aesthetic sense, self-discipline, curiosity, the joy of learning and developing your own philosophy of life, and the ability to pay attention to your fellow human beings at the hour of their greatest need. All of these are very relevant to life outside of school. But not all schools succeed in teaching such things.
A lot of things are, but some will actually help.
For example, in math, where you will need to know algebra if you're a kindergarten teacher (as an example), I have no idea.
And why you have to know who fought in the War of 1812, again, I don't know.
I don't have an example for where school will actually help in life, but I know it does somehow...
It depends classes like consumer math were great to me...I learned how to do my own taxes and such....however there are certain classes I believe students can do without
YES...you learn everything you need to know in kindergarten