Pointless Learning

[ShrooM_DoughKiD]

P.E, wood & metal shop, Religion and the I.T class where all we did was learn how to use photo shop.

Thanks school, you succeeded in teaching me nothing of value.

 

[ygetoff]

PE

I hate sports, I hate sports players, and I'm physically weak.
For me (and probably 99.999999% of my classmates who actually think they have futures in sports careers) absolutely useless.

The theory is that the forced physical activity will prevent the more physically weak students from completely wasting away.
I like it. It's better than yet another academic class.
OT: Chinese is the hardest class I have ever taken and ever will take.
And geometry really annoys me. Proofs in particular are the work of the Devil.

 

[thepj]

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??

i do belive kind sir that your response is when most people would say: case in point

 

[L33tsauce_Marty]

Anything in Middle school, except for history...god I loved history...

 

[damselgaming]

Citizenship/PSHE. Why? What was it supposed to be? All I remember is mixing fluids with hidden STIs in them. And getting free ice cream flavoured condoms.

I did half a year of Sociology at Uni. What a fucking useless subject. A good 90% of the students were feminists, and hippies.

Other ridiculous things learnt all those years ago in school:
How to DJ, clay use in Art, writing and filming soap operas in English, WAR POETRY- I cannot stress this enough- I HATE WAR POETRY.

 

[x0ny]

I don't think any subject is pointless, except for general studies (wtfs that). Subjects train different parts of the brain. We don't learn Maths because we're definitely gonna be scientists or accountants or builders.

 

[crono738]

Chemistry...because I'm gonna be messing around with that stuff as a BUSINESS MAJOR

 

[thepj]

Citizenship/PSHE. Why? What was it supposed to be? All I remember is mixing fluids with hidden STIs in them. And getting free ice cream flavoured condoms.

I did half a year of Sociology at Uni. What a fucking useless subject. A good 90% of the students were feminists, and hippies.

Other ridiculous things learnt all those years ago in school:
How to DJ, clay use in Art, writing and filming soap operas in English, WAR POETRY- I cannot stress this enough- I HATE WAR POETRY.

two things:

1. i agree, i hate war poetry with a passion

2. THEY GAVE YOU ICE-CREAM FLAVOURED CONDOMS!! wow, although i must admit i never got the point of flavoured condoms

 

[ottenni]

The closest thing to pointless that i can think of would be cooking, but that really isn't that pointless. Well maybe studying the film Jindabyne. I cant stand that movie.

Religion, its made up bollocks I say

Yeah i had religion in primary school (thats from the ages of 5-12 in case people don't use that term) but it was optional and the teacher was very relaxed about it. He didn't expect us to believe.

 

[damselgaming]

Citizenship/PSHE. Why? What was it supposed to be? All I remember is mixing fluids with hidden STIs in them. And getting free ice cream flavoured condoms.

I did half a year of Sociology at Uni. What a fucking useless subject. A good 90% of the students were feminists, and hippies.

Other ridiculous things learnt all those years ago in school:
How to DJ, clay use in Art, writing and filming soap operas in English, WAR POETRY- I cannot stress this enough- I HATE WAR POETRY.

two things:

1. i agree, i hate war poetry with a passion

2. THEY GAVE YOU ICE-CREAM FLAVOURED CONDOMS!! wow, although i must admit i never got the point of flavoured condoms

You can still get STIs from oral sex... and i'll leave that topic there.
But yeah, apparantly their advice was "If you're going to have sex, might-as-well be ice cream flavoured!".

 

[Revolutionary]

U.S. History. But that may only be because it was required curriculum from 3rd to 12th grade and college gen ed.

Dude try Australian Histroy, thats 6X worse.

 

[Xojins]

Fractals were probably the most useless thing I've learned about.

 

[thepj]

Citizenship/PSHE. Why? What was it supposed to be? All I remember is mixing fluids with hidden STIs in them. And getting free ice cream flavoured condoms.

I did half a year of Sociology at Uni. What a fucking useless subject. A good 90% of the students were feminists, and hippies.

Other ridiculous things learnt all those years ago in school:
How to DJ, clay use in Art, writing and filming soap operas in English, WAR POETRY- I cannot stress this enough- I HATE WAR POETRY.

two things:

1. i agree, i hate war poetry with a passion

2. THEY GAVE YOU ICE-CREAM FLAVOURED CONDOMS!! wow, although i must admit i never got the point of flavoured condoms

You can still get STIs from oral sex... and i'll leave that topic there.
But yeah, apparantly their advice was "If you're going to have sex, might-as-well be ice cream flavoured!".

right yes i forgot about that.

probably good advice, after all who doesn't love to lick ice-cream and suck lollies

 

[Biosophilogical]

RE in grades 8-10. I still have to do a religious class in 11-12, but at least I do Study of Religion instead of Religious Education (one is studying many religions/learning about them, while the other is about Christianity). I actually enjoy S.O.R. but R.E. makes me want to put my face in a blender made of cyannide.

 

[delet]

So much of Algebra.
So much of History.
So much of English.
Gym.
Health (I have the internet. I think I have an idea how it works.)
There's so much...

 

[Plurralbles]

Also,

Polynomials of course

What's that? (Serious question)

It's the , (x-2)(x+6)=f(x) stuff.

Gah... it's annoying but easy as heck. If you ever need to know how much to cut off the corners of a box to make it have the greatest volume when folded, I'm your man though.

And whoever said english... that's a RETARDED thing to say. Unless you'll never speak it, you can freaki'n use it for the rest of your life unless you're just going to ask improperly, "ya' want fries with that? durrr"

 

[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?

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

Huh, I didn't even know that was legal. But there are different laws in the U.K I suppose.

 

[PhunkyPhazon]

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.

I'm gonna disagree with you on this one. Did you know 25% of American's don't even know where the U.S is located on a map? That's just fucking sad.

And whoever said english... that's a RETARDED thing to say. Unless you'll never speak it, you can freaki'n use it for the rest of your life unless you're just going to ask improperly, "ya' want fries with that? durrr"

I agree with the main point, but I think English class does start getting retarded after you've mastered the essentials. From there on it's all about memorizing completely useless facts about old books, poetry, and learning words that no one ever, ever, ever, ever, EVER uses.

 

[Shurikens and Lightning]

Personal fitness.

Fuck that course.