Pointless Learning

[Nimbus]

Irish. It's a dead fucking language. Let it rest in peace already.

Actually, considering the way we teach them in this country, expand that to all non-english languages.

Poetry. This doesn't even need explaining.

Logs. The teacher told us that this was useless and we would never use it outside of school, even if we went into Maths-based careers. What. The. Fuck.

Irish again. Seriously, it's so pointless, I'm putting it down twice.

Religion. Don;t even get me started. It was nice to broaden our horizons when we were younger, but we have important exams coming up. Can't they give it a fucking rest?

Geography is pretty fucking useless. It's such a wide, varied topic that no matter what you do in life, no matter what, no more than 5% of the crap you do will ever be in any way relevant.

That's it for now. I'll think of more later.

EDIT: PE. Seriously, 40 minutes a week isn't going to do anything but waste time.

Also,

Polynomials of course

What's that? (Serious question)

 

[Soxafloppin]

Moving Image Arts...LOL

 

[wandatheavenger]

As my stepmother's geometry teacher told her, "You will likely never have to do proofs in your life, but you will have to think." There's no such thing as a useless class because it isn't about the content nearly as much as it is about the skills you develop.

 

[NeutralDrow]

None, really. I haven't considered any learning I've done pointless at all. I'm almost of the opinion that such a thing doesn't exist...almost.

That said, I think the only genuinely pointless class I ever took was a college-level Creative Writing course. All I learned from that is that I don't give literary criticism all that well (I hate being negative in all but the worst cases), and I'm not that good at receiving it, either.

RE... i have nothing against other religions, but i really don't care about learning about them... Especially talking about God. I have my own beliefs and oppinions, others have theirs.

Knowing other peoples' beliefs can quite help with interaction.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

I'm wondering if you really understand the point of classes in the first place, if you assume they are all pointless.

You won't remember what you learn in any specific class for long after you are finished with the subject, what you are doing is forming neurological pathways in your brain. You should be focused on learning to learn, rather than declaring everything pointless.

huh??

you know i'm not so surprised by that response to something that is 100% correct about what classes are for, even if they do seem kinda pointless. they also serve to lay the ground work for other things you will learn later in life.

there's also a great reason for the setups for classes, it's geared towards things like factory work, which is still where most people in school are going to end up after school

 

[Tom13ombadil]

geometry in the 9th grade.
pointless theorems to remember, worst teacher EVER. She gave me at LEAST 1 homework asignment per night and a quiz every other day. Hated it.

 

[Plurralbles]

I will use every bit of math and economics and history they throw at me but as for chemistry... pretty worthless for a CSE major but it is interesting and helps with lab working.

 

[GreyWolf257]

Geometry. That was the first and only "C" I ever made. I will NEVER use any of that stuff, EVER!

 

[hazelwoof]

Dance. :/ Two compulsary years of that rubbish. It wasn't even proper dance. It was most expressionist dance. I skipped so many of those lessons.

 

[Kriptonite]

I was forced to do PE and Religion for my first few years in school. Pointless pointless pointless.

Wait, Religion was a class in school?

I think that most of the higher math classes are useless depending on your career choice. Also, something like AP(college) History and Physics.

 

[I Stomp on Kittens]

Biology and math beyond 7th grade.

 

[thylasos]

I can see a point to almost everything I did in school; whether it was immediately relevant or not is another matter. Mathematics, after having covered simultaneous equations, though? I don't see it, myself. Of course, you want people to learn mathematics and physics and so on, in order that there're people there for the jobs in those fields, but if you're studying other economically viable subjects, I don't really understand it being compulsory.

 

[thylasos]

I was forced to do PE and Religion for my first few years in school. Pointless pointless pointless.

Wait, Religion was a class in school?

Religious Studies, up to Year 9 (age... 14?). Heavily bent towards Christianity in the UK. I have no idea how they justify that...

 

[Mcupobob]

Classes just started for my 2nd semester of my jr year and I have to take all these usless classes. Just curious for those of you who are in school or who have been in school in the past: what are some of the most usless or most pointless classes that you have taken and what are some of the most usless things that you learned. The two do not have to be related.

Really I just started my seconed semester like 2 weeks ago. Really I gave up trying to question the point of most of the stuff I learn in school and i'm just trying to blow through it with a B average...

 

[Charli]

Sorry can't help you, I always treated School like a dull chore, no effort included, but enough to keep people off my back. EVERY class was pointless to me, even the topics I cared about weren't covered in great enough depth to capture my attentions for long.

I doodled in every class. Ever. Even when teachers tried to stop me.

The weren't aware I had a small note pad up my jumper sleeve. (I kid you not)

 

[Maze1125]

Logs. The teacher told us that this was useless and we would never use it outside of school, even if we went into Maths-based careers. What. The. Fuck.

Well your teacher was wrong.
Many different mathematical and physical disciplines require logs.

 

[ThePocketWeasel]

I'm doing a Forensic Science BTEC and there's been a fair amount of our lessons which are common sense and completely pointless such as; one about science and media, one about how to prevent crime? Common sense much? Oh and one about people's views on science and our lecturer for that pretty much manages to offend the whole class every lesson by talking about killing old people.

Oh and RE at GCSE, it wasn't really RE considering we only learnt about christianity and then the exam's nothing to do with christianity....

 

[Banana Phone Man]

It is funny what I lean but useless as well. In GCSE physics my teacher draws a very complicated graph, it took him about 10-15 minuets. He then goes on to describe how the graph shows the wavelengths of to light waves and how the wavelength affects the interferance of the light waves. By the end of the lesson the class is complaining because we don't get it and then he goes on to say "Don't worry this is A level stuff, you won't actually need to learn this" So now I will fail because he never taught me the easy stuff.

 

[achilleas.k]

French. Can't remember a word of it besides the things everyone knows. Ever since I graduated high school though (our version of it) and went on to Uni, every single bit of info has resulted in what I am today. I don't remember all of it, and no one expects you to. The thing about learning stuff is that you learn how to learn (as a previous poster mentioned).

I remember when I was learning Pascal as a first programming language and all my classmates were wondering why they are teaching us a language that is not used any more in commercial environments. Besides the fact that the institute I was at had a pretty outdated curriculum, the fact of the matter is that they were teaching us how to program and Pascal was just an easy approach to it. From there on you can pick up just about any procedural programming language in a day or two.

Similarly, no one expects you to remember every single mathematical formula that gets taught in class. Lawyers aren't required to quote the penal code, just as mathematicians aren't required to know all formulas, just as doctors aren't required to remember every single disease and it's symptoms, just as programmers aren't required to know every single function/method. You learn how stuff works overall and how you can adapt and put new knowledge to use.

Even when taking subjects such as "Philosophy of Cognitive Science", which many would consider pointless and "just an easy good grade", I enjoyed it more than you can imagine. I guess that's why I stuck in academics.

 

[MetaKnight19]

Religion. All we did was watch Lord of The Rings for an hour. Then the next lesson would be watching the next hour, we did this with all 3 films. The only problem with that was that I didn't like any of the LoTR films. Oh and occasionally we had a brief discussion about religion for about 10 minutes