As a student we come across many struggles, one of them being not understanding why we are learning things that won’t apply to our future day to day lives. After graduation, most students find it difficult to new things, for example doing their taxes but yet they understand unhelpful things like the pythagorean theorem. I personally don’t think I will ever need to use the pythagorean theorem so why is it that I need to know it? Most of the time, if students aren’t interested in what they are learning, we just memorize the topic for a test and as soon as the text is over, it’s forgotten. Although it might seem like knowing some topics are unnecessary, some might say these things will make you a better educated, well-rounded person. I feel as if the only good part about learning some of these topics is that when we grow up, we most likely will switch jobs a couple of times. Then that’s where learning all these lessons might come in handy. But if you know for a fact you aren’t going to be going into something that deal with mathematics, you shouldn’t have to know how to solve y=mx+b. In my opinion, I believe that we should have the choice of choosing what we are interested in to learn.
On Quora.com, a scientist posted, "As I go along in my career I find that I'm making more and more use of what I learned in my "useless" college philosophy, literature, and history classes." Although you never know what your going to go into when you are an adult, I still strongly believe we don't need half the things we are taught. If you know for a fact that you aren't interested in being a history teacher or a math teacher beyond the skills of middleschool, you should'nt have to know those things. As I kept reading, the scientist said, "In the US the goal of schooling is not so much to prepare you for a career as it is to turn you into an "educated person." I think schooing should be for both. To make us educated people on things that we NEED to be educated on, such as what we need to survive our future lives.
Although I don't believe that the whole class of math or english or etc is useless, but I think that some of the lessons they teach is not important. Schooling has changed so much over the past 150 years that nobody really understands what is useful and what is useless. Of course the basics such as reading, writing, and arithmetc but what about Civics? It's never shown anymore. There's hardly any time spent on Geography either. Is it even important? What we really need nowadays is to teach technology basics to everyone. We live in a world that we can't live without technology. Not only that, but we have no "Lifeskills" classes. So, I still strongly believe we do have a lot of useless lessons in our schools curriculum.
Do you think we learn a lot of useless lessons?
If so, what ones do you think are the least important?
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Good topic choice and ver ywell done Alivia!
I believe that there are many lessons we learn in school that could easily be deemed useless for the majority of future jobs. I personally am horrible at certain geometry problems and would like to not learn them and I often use the excuse that I wouldn't use them in my future to deny completing these problems.
I think that there are many lessons that are tought in school will most likely never apply to many of our future jobs. Although like you said its good to be a well rounded person and to have other things to fall back on if you do end up switching jobs in the future.
I agree that there are a lot of classes that we are not going to use in our future. I think that there are infact too many classes that are usless, than what is important. One of the classes I think is dumb just to go to a good colege is to have at least 2 years of another forgin laugage. When am I ever going to have to use Spanish and probalby not even going to remember it.
We learn so much stuff that we dont need to lean at all. I think that we should learn stuff that will help us when we get out of high school and help us with the rest of are life. i think that we dont need all the math stuff that we learn becasue when are we ever ganna use 3/4 of that stuff.
Yes, I think so. Its good to learn what we do learn in classes but some we will never use outside of school. I think woods is useless, however we have that class because some people will want to go into that stuff after high school. I also think some things in math classes are useless because I would never you that outside of school.
Yes, I believe that we learn many useless lessons that by many will never be used in real life. I think it is a waste of time to be learning these. I think a lot of our Geometry is very useless. We have devices that can tell us the angles of many different items.
I think we learn a lot of useless lessons. I think that we should learn the ones in the curriculum and the ones that teach us real life skills. However, I don't think we need to learn the random lessons that teachers don't have to teach and don't teach us anything applicable to real life. While learning is important, learning useless information just to forget it later is not important.
I think there are some useless lessons. HOWEVER, taking out lessons we view as useless leaves less opportunities for people who want to go into unique career fields. For example, I might think business is important when someone else wants to go into an art field. To me, art is useless, but to them, it is a future career. However, a lot of the classes and lessons we view as useless can be. The majority of these classes don't actually get people very far in life. I think business and science classes are very important, along with health, etc. Some classes are solely for entertainment but others probably aren't needed. I think it is still a good idea to get exposed to the lessons we view as pointless in case they pique our interests.
I think that there are current areas of each subject that are sort of useless information. A lot of these lessons that we are taught are to give us a foundation of knowledge for college. If the school system switched to only teaching people what they are interested in there would be a lot of people that are smart in one area and have no knowledge of another.
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