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Almost Completely Unnecessary Things Taught in School

Almost Completely Unnecessary Things Taught in School

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Education is important to success in life, and its value can hardly be measured. That being said, there are many things that we spend time trying to learn and understand that don’t seem useful come graduation. It’s time that could better be spent learning survival skills such as building a fire, reading a compass, or haggling over prices at a market, car dealership or what have you. Basically, we’d be better off skipping out on school and joining the Boy Scouts.

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Calculus
Literally, the only time you will ever need to know and understand calculus is if you become a calculus teacher. Which then just perpetuates the cycle of others having to learn calculus. Don’t become part of the problem.

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Iambic Pentameter
Does it really matter how Shakespeare wrote his traditional verse in small groups of syllables? It just seems like spending your day looking in your hand instead of the Grand Canyon in front of you.

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Geometry
Guess how important it is that you know if a triangle is isosceles or equilateral? Don’t get me wrong, geometry is important in many things – urban planning, building almost anything, or even fashion design. But it just seems like we spend too much time on the inconsequential details and ignore the practical utility.

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Long division (or nearly all mathematical functions)
Calculators, my friend. Even if you’re not nerdy enough to carry one around with you at all times, you’re bound to have one on your handy dandy cell phone! And if you don’t have that with you, you’re seriously screwed in more ways than one.

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Coloring inside the lines
Go to any modern art museum, and you’ll find that the opposite is what’s trendy – and will get you a $10,000 price tag. It’s deconstructed/re-interpreted/absolute bull but you’re an artist so all you need is a creative explanation. Also, there’s not much time to color in the real world.

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The rules of Australian baseball
Unless you live in Australia, there is absolutely no time when you’ll need to use this. So please, Mr. Fitz, can we please just play dodgeball in gym class from now on?

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Latin
It’s dead for a reason.

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How to build a diorama
Unless you want to be an architect, in which case you should probably use something other than a shoebox. Although the ones of Egyptian tombs were pretty sweet.

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Cursive
Seriously, it’s harder to read anyway! You will never be turned down for a job because your capital “G” looks like a fancy doodle, or you choose to write your “z” Billy Madison-style. Beyond it being a collassel waste of time, everybody just uses computers anyway.

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