49 Things You Learned In School That Are Now Completely Useless
Congratulations. Your childhood education was all for nothing.
1. How to write in cursive
2. How to drop an egg from a five-story building without breaking it
6. How to find a book using the card catalogue system
35. How to differentiate between different types of dinosaurs
36. How to cite a source using MLA
UPDATED: Apparently our previous picture was not in MLA. English teachers everywhere collectively cringed.
37. How to build a styrofoam solar system
Pluto’s not even a planet anymore. WHY EVEN BOTHER?!
43. How to jump out of the back of a bus
Let’s face it: If your bus is on fire, you get the fuck out however you can.
45. How to sell worthless coupon books
46. How to scratch and sniff
Have you ever tried scratching and sniffing someone in real life? Yeah, they don’t like when you do that.
47. How to care for your Pokemon cards
Dude, your prized holographic Charizard card is worth like 15 cents.
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Baiciyu 8 months agoAside from the fad stuff (see: Macarena), I believe the lessons behind the items in this list are still essential parts of education. So what if spellcheck keeps your documents error-free. Knowing how to spell is part of knowing how to write. Knowledge is knowledge. Do you want to live your life in ignorance because you have technology to think for you? Good luck to you when the power goes out.
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HBNole 8 months agoI dislike it when people bag on Latin. I had 4 years of Latin in school and I actually use it on a daily basis. I think if you didn’t take it, you don’t know how it helps with vocabulary. Most words that I’ve never seen before, I can break them down and take a good guess at what they mean.
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andreac16 8 months agoA feel old. A few of these were before my time (Macarena, solar system model without Pluto) and my Oregon Trail was 8 bit played on an Apple Computer.
Nostalgia aside, these are useful in different ways. They just aren’t directly applicable to the average person’s daily life. However, activities like many of the above mentioned science projects do expand critical thinking skills during crucial brain development years. Plus they’re fun.
As an actual elementary school teacher, I could go on and on about what activities are and are not beneficial, but I think I’m already in the tl:dr territory.
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Richard Parker 8 months agoSo, anything that provides background knowledge, expands your cultural vocabulary, stimulates your imagination, reinforces a sense of personal responsibility, builds a framework for the appreciation of other languages and cultures, builds strength and dexterity or offers an historical context for your present existence is “useless”? Oh, yes, that totally makes sense:/
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Miss Cellania 8 months agoI didn’t learn any of these in school, except cursive. But learning things like dioramas and volcanoes would have come in really handy when my kids were in elementary school!
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dylm 8 months agoim playing a game where i randomly scroll to part of the list and say why it should be there… ah, #37. you’re not learning how to make a styrofoam solar system you’re learning where all the planets are and how they interact with the sun and each other. also, long division is division of polynomials, not you know regular division. also, this list is stupid.
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