What was the most pointless or useless thing you learned at school? (21)
DjWabbet: For me it was "Folk Dancing" and "Marching".
I dont know what sort of drugs our teachers were on, but they must have had a right old laughing fit at us marching and folk dancing...
I dont know what sort of drugs our teachers were on, but they must have had a right old laughing fit at us marching and folk dancing...
What about all the things they taught us that were proven plain out wrong?
like electricity flows from negative to positive
like Dinosaurs died out before modern man
An archaeologist in Texas has fossilized footprints of modern man with a dino. Can't tell if the man is stalking the dino or the dino stalking the man, but both footprints are very clear.
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DjWabbet: For me it was "Folk Dancing" and "Marching".
I dont know what sort of drugs our teachers were on, but they must have had a right old laughing fit at us marching and folk dancing...
I dont know what sort of drugs our teachers were on, but they must have had a right old laughing fit at us marching and folk dancing...
Modern maths like 2b+ 3c = xyz
I´m a linguist and those maths formulae haven´t helped my one bit!!
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We were taught to hide under our desks in case of a nuclear attack back when I was in elementary school. Sort of like "Stop, Drop and Roll" !
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IamTab: What about all the things they taught us that were proven plain out wrong?
like electricity flows from negative to positive
like Dinosaurs died out before modern man
An archaeologist in Texas has fossilized footprints of modern man with a dino. Can't tell if the man is stalking the dino or the dino stalking the man, but both footprints are very clear.
like electricity flows from negative to positive
like Dinosaurs died out before modern man
An archaeologist in Texas has fossilized footprints of modern man with a dino. Can't tell if the man is stalking the dino or the dino stalking the man, but both footprints are very clear.
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the most useless thing I learned was Shorthand writing. I would take dictation and then couldn't read back the squiggles I wrote!
Never used it in my working life.
Never used it in my working life.
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I had to suffer the french language for 3 years despite having no interest in learning it. Waste of time.
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How to dissect a frog was pretty high up on the list of useless....
lets face it Im not about to use it as a party trick
lets face it Im not about to use it as a party trick
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Sunnydaze14: the most useless thing I learned was Shorthand writing. I would take dictation and then couldn't read back the squiggles I wrote!
Never used it in my working life.
Never used it in my working life.
I had to take shorthand so that I could take bookkeeping...
Never used the shorthand, but I never cared either. One whole year in a class with 14 girls... an NO OTHER GUYS
(I larned bunches... but not the shorthand)
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Jeeepers: We were taught to hide under our desks in case of a nuclear attack back when I was in elementary school. Sort of like "Stop, Drop and Roll" !
That's not what they taught us. They lined us up out in the hall, had us all sit against the wall with our legs crossed, then tuck our heads down low, and kiss our butts goodbye.
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I never learned much of anything so I don't know what would be pointless
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Ur_Knight: I had to take shorthand so that I could take bookkeeping...
Never used the shorthand, but I never cared either. One whole year in a class with 14 girls... an NO OTHER GUYS
(I larned bunches... but not the shorthand)
Never used the shorthand, but I never cared either. One whole year in a class with 14 girls... an NO OTHER GUYS
(I larned bunches... but not the shorthand)
I needed an easy class to fill out my schedule, so I took homeech. I learn a lot of great things to cook that were really easy to make and I was the only guy in the class. I don't think I ever got that much attention in any class, or anywhere for that matter. It was a great time!
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I was a good student and found use in most things, but out 6th grade science projects were dumm
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LuvHurts51: That's not what they taught us. They lined us up out in the hall, had us all sit against the wall with our legs crossed, then tuck our heads down low, and kiss our butts goodbye.
I bet you went far out in the biz world having been taught how to kiss butts so well, and getting all that practice.
Sorry no offense meant, i just got this really funny mental picture.
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IamTab: I bet you went far out in the biz world having been taught how to kiss butts so well, and getting all that practice.
Sorry no offense meant, i just got this really funny mental picture.
Sorry no offense meant, i just got this really funny mental picture.
No offense taken. It didn't do me any good in business at all since the ony butt I learned to kiss was my own.
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LuvHurts51: That's not what they taught us. They lined us up out in the hall, had us all sit against the wall with our legs crossed, then tuck our heads down low, and kiss our butts goodbye.
I like hiding under the desk better, but kissing my own butt back then might have been fun. I wonder how it would have been if you could have kissed each other's butts goodbye ? 
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Having to go at all.
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To write with my right hand, sinse I was born lefty..
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Jeeepers: We were taught to hide under our desks in case of a nuclear attack back when I was in elementary school. Sort of like "Stop, Drop and Roll" !
hey jeeps
ours was called 'duck and cover'.
most useless thing:
after several years of having my hand swatted with two wooden yardsticks taped together with black electrician tape (she could reach across two aisles that way..lol) i had to 'mirror write' everything backwards for the good part of a year because i was left handed.
so did i learn to write with my write hand ?...nope
did i learn to have some issues with authority ?...yup
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the Pythagorean theorem.
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I dont know what sort of drugs our teachers were on, but they must have had a right old laughing fit at us marching and folk dancing...