Re: Question bout stuff learnt at school

by ayca on Thu Dec 18, 2008 5:38 pm

Shakespeare is part of our national heritage. It's also funking awesome.

by ayca on Thu Dec 18, 2008 5:40 pm

And learning about other people's stances on moral issues is important if we want to give people the opportunity to make their own decisions on such matters. Or we could just abort all babies, I mean, that would remove the necessity of learning 'crap'.If we only learnt practical shizz in school, life would be much less interesting.

by **rastari** on Thu Dec 18, 2008 5:43 pm

ayca wrote:Shakespeare is part of our national heritage. It's also funking awesome.

there are lots of authors who are awesome, so perhaps the curriculum needs a little more variety

by John Forseti on Thu Dec 18, 2008 5:57 pm

Shakespeare is nice, but anything that takes two paragraphs to say a sentence is wasting my time, especially when you need to reread the damn thing twenty times over just to get what that sentence actually is.

School should give you a wide curriculum so you can get a feel for what you like and/or are good at, and as you move up in academia you hone in it, maybe even specialise in it. Which is great if you're a scientific/engineery/computerising/mathematical kind of person. If you're not then at least it's something interesting to you before you start submerging into the job market.

by Chandler Bing on Sat Dec 20, 2008 6:04 pm

I'm still at school and all that stuff that was on the first message is the stuff I'm learning now, but I enjoy school just for the chance to see my mates.

by bluefalcon99 on Sun Dec 21, 2008 1:25 am

oh the social side I don't mind (tho it aint all gud) just sitting having to sit through rubbish.

I.E my ict teacher actually agrees that the system is a load of crap. R.S teacher could put more effort into it (then again that would make the lesson worse)

to me school seems to.....general.

learn random stuff and end up just wasting time getting some letters on a paper. I want to come out of school knowing stuff I'm gunna use. E.G for a job.

by RomanSoldier on Sun Dec 21, 2008 3:52 am

if we removed school=p..everyone in the UK would be completely retarded

School gives a full General of everything maths ect...so that u can choose what your best at and when u get pasted school and into college/uni u get to choose what your best at..which then leads to your job=p

by Primeminister keogh on Sun Dec 21, 2008 10:32 am

exactly where we would we be without maths or science we would still be in the middle ages.

by **Taytaz** on Sun Dec 21, 2008 10:57 am

No, the year would progress ;P

by Primeminister keogh on Sun Dec 21, 2008 11:11 am

u know wt i mean we wouldn't have things like computers or vaccinations.

by **rastari** on Sun Dec 21, 2008 12:01 pm

the vaccine was invented well before compulsory education, we have milk maids to thank for that one

by Primeminister keogh on Sun Dec 21, 2008 12:30 pm

true but that was down to jenkins who was a doctor and you need a good education to become a doctor.

by Teh User on Sun Dec 21, 2008 1:31 pm

I love how my Religious Education lessons have nothing to do with Christianity or religion in general. It's all 'abortion, euthanasia and life after death'. The exam papers say 'Name of Religious Tradition:' when they mean 'Name of Religion:'.

by Alex Steiner on Tue Dec 23, 2008 8:02 pm

Primeminister keogh wrote:true but that was down to jenkins who was a doctor and you need a good education to become a doctor.

Not then you didn't "Hey, everyone, I'm a doctor." Quite some qualification...

by Primeminister keogh on Tue Dec 23, 2008 8:06 pm

by Alex Steiner Today at 8:02 pm

<BLOCKQUOTE>Primeminister keogh wrote:true but that was down to jenkins who was a doctor and you need a good education to become a doctor.
</BLOCKQUOTE>Not then you didn't "Hey, everyone, I'm a doctor." Quite some qualification...

Yes you did we had universities and everything and you needed to go through them and get degrees actually.