What subject in school did you learn but hardly ever use once you got out of school?
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lizizhere
ANSWERS: 17
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Algebra
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Biology , who cares how a plant grows ? Just enjoy them when they're ready !!!!!
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Geometry. The answers provided by all the theorems and proofs (etc.) are more precise than the kind of spatial thinking I've really needed to do. I'm a good estimator and measurer. That's been more than adequate. Mind you, my work has NOT been in the mathematical line, and I'm surely glad we HAVE our mathematicians and engineers. What they know and can do surely makes our lives more convenient. :-) Math is everywhere. Consider queueing theory, just for one instance, and how much the transportation industry relies on it.
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I at first didn't think that a lot of higher math, algebra and geometry were useful day to day but I later learned that the principles behind them were applied all the time, especially when I was sewing or cooking. They just didn't look like a familiar geometric problem all laid out on the page but the elements were all there in everyday life. In smallways , but there. I thought that English Lit was a waste but then realised that many ideas and thoughts from those stories and poems crop up all the time. Can't give examples but as I gorw older I realise that there is hardly anything that you DON'T use throughout your life in some way. Education is always useful and beneficial.
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Math beyond simple algebra.
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French, although there is potential to need it at some point Some areas of Maths, espicially Mechanics I've had no need for. Its easier to throw a ball and see where it lands rather than try and work it out :p
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Home Economics... I might as well have sat around and hit my thumb with a hammer. The class was required for a semester in Junior High, excrutiatingly painful (learning to thread a sewing machine, for example), and I don't use a bit of it.
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French and maths. I do use a bit of french now and again but if I was planning to go there for any length of time it would be worth learning better things then we did at school like 'i have a bath', 'i have green eyes' 'am tall' lol that kinda thing. Math i could never work out why we needed to learn that a=22 or something weird like that. I think its because i was in a really naughty class and we all used to play up in these two lessons. A coincidence or not???.....
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umm....all of them? I think high school (at least in the US) is mostly useless. I understand the need for history and language and reading classics and getting a basic understanding in math and science, but I think they try to teach you way too much stuff. Like economics for instance. I took the class AP, and I loved it because it was so interesting. But I've only used the very, very basic things we learned in the first week or so in my daily life. And I took tons of math, 'cause I liked it, but I've never used more than basic algebra or geometry unless I'm reading a complex math book. I think most of it is useless information that you don't even remember after you regurgitate it onto a test or essay.
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I admit I haven't used geometry much in my day to day life but....it did teach me how to learn. It made me focus on something I had absolutely no interest in and to concentrate, to use logic, deductive/inductive reasoning, to think critically. Those indirect lessons have served me well.
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well currently i am thinking chemistry geometry and world history
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calculus III, poetry, aerobics, graphic design I & II, artificial intelligence, web design.
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I've used everything a little. I haven't applied all knowledge learned in high school, but I've needed this piece of info on occasion, and that piece for a Trivial Pursuit question. High School wasn't very efficient though. Three years to win a trivial pursuit game. Not a good use of my time...and I got my ass kicked regularly the first two years there. I'm really, really, really glad it's over.
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probebly englesh gramar
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Algebra, never thought about it after college.
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I took a semester of tennis in college - never have used it.
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metal shop
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