Well, you really aren't going to know what information you will need until after you graduate. Also the skills given to you in school are used to progress critical thinking skills and problem solving. These skills will help you in all areas of life. I have learned not to fight it. Just do your best, that way you can get into a good school and someday have a good job.

believe it or not some time in your life you will need what you learn in school. Everything is taught for a reason although it may seem pointless to you now, as you get older and deal with more things in life you will see just how important things you were taught in school realli mean .Theres a reason for everything and that includes your education because without it where would we be.

Somebody told me that education is never wasted, and I've been astonished at how true this turned out to be. For instance, I found out that I was way behind in my foriegn language requirement and might have to stay in college an extra semester, which I didn't have the money for. But later I found that I could skip the first level of Spanish since I took 2 years in high school, and so I finished college on time after all. And I constantly find myself thinking back to old random classes that I had to take. Who knows when I will need this info in the future? In short, you will use everything, believe it or don't.

Once I met a high-school girl who said upon hearing that I teach English: "I don't know why I have to study English in school--I'm never going to use it." That was the best comment of its kind I ever heard.

"Modern" school education is based on generalization, meaning that everyone has to learn a little about everything..which is supposed to help once you decide what are you going to specifically learn as a career. I personally think that they should, thru testing and measurement of your specific capabilities, determine your unique potential at a young age and start preparing you in a career when you are a kid. Based on comments: This has nothing to do with Ethics, Morals and Society...I'm referring to actual academic subjects. For example...why pack somebody with more than arithmetics, is he is not going to pursue a career based on Math. But well I'm not a psychologist or padagogic professional and I assume they have a reason to do it the way it is. Most of the things we do in life we do them because they tell us to do it and we comply, the benefit of your compliance is to live in a society that makes it easier to survive (!?) If you do not like society conventions (school, have a family, raise your kids, go to church, work 8 hours, pay your taxes, pay your mortgage, etc) then you can always travel to somewhere in Africa and hunt for a living. If you wanna have your credit card, go to the disco and have a 50" wide-screen TV, then comply. Such is life.

I will share the theme of a math class a friend of mine took in graduate school. The assignment was to email as if to a friend, each day for 2 weeks, a brief description on how you had used math in your everyday world. When she told me about it, I found myself interested in 'looking' at my everyday world and the funny thing was, I really did problem solving with math each day without realizing it. I believe the point was that it isn't that you 'don't' use the teachings after graduating, but rather you don't realize that you 'do'.

alot of school isnt to educate you. If you want the blunt answer its to weed out the thick and lazy ones.

School is for an education! Sounds like a simple little asinine phrase but I am seeing that in today’s world the sheep skin is mostly on everyone’s mind. The majority of college graduates do not have the tools to do the job in the field they go into. I. E. the basics! Unless you have a crystal ball and know what's in your future you do not know where you’re going to end up. Katrina should have taught us that our world can flip on a dime, you better learn as much as you can, about as much as you can, while you can!

Education is what you have left after you've forgotten the facts.

You use in math in everyday situations, from making change if you work in a store, to balancing your checkbook every month. If you go into engineering or construction, you'd be really lost without knowing how to read blueprints or figure dimensions. Math is definitely a part of an adult's daily life. Secondly, without proper English, you wouldn't get very far in the fields of journalism, script writing, writing a novel, being able to read everything from a treatise on Russian history to a recipe for biscuits. And even besides the "three R's" which are the basics for all education, there are so many other subjects offered in school that will affect everything you do as a career, as a parent, as a citizen. Therefore, even though figuring algebraic formulae and writing essays may seem boring and unnecessary, you might want to rethink whether these subjects and others will never be used after graduation, because the majority of high school and college graduates would seriously disagree with you.

I agree with any of the above if they contain the word "thinking" or "problem solving" or any variable of the above. Without those skills one will not go far in this world. They are necessary almost anything one chooses to do. And that's what most elementary and high school subjects teach. The more one broadens one's scope of learning the better one is capable of facing the world.

Most school works are always being used in real life, whether directly or indirectly. The application is of course different from the way it was learned but people's ways of life is centered around their model of education.

The worst outcome will be to forget everything one learns (maybe because it was crammed or not of interest. But, you will walk away with the ability to learn whether needed. The ability to teach yourself will not be something alien and unknown. You are already familiar with a leaning environment and have vague notions of places to start teaching yourself. Rather than being lost is a see of information, you remember that it has something to do with biology or chemistry. Now you know how to guide yourself to your interest. Now you can deal with a manageable wealth of information to begin learning or teaching (yourself ). For example, boss wants to know more about fish, Just being in high-school I leaned that they kept fish in the biology glass, not shop class. So I think I could start with a book called biology. I am so more ahead that going through random books. Starting with the book that begins with A, and burn out in automotive books. But, I remembered so that one thing about bio and it put me so far ahead that I skipped the books that began with A. Simplistic because this is the very least one walked away with short of a four years medical certified coma. Edited for some Grammar

How do you know you ahead of time what you will use and what you will not? How do you know you will never use it? Can you predict the future. The purpose of school/education is to prepare you to overcome obstacles in your future and know how to function as a productive member of society; therefore, you will learn a variety of subjects.

I'm a high school student, and this is a question that I think about a lot. Here is one possible explanation: The purpose of high school is not to learn specific information; it's to learn how to learn. That way, when you study something you'll actually use in college, you'll know how to take notes and study and stuff. Personally, I'm not entirely satisfied by this answer. An interesting experiment would be to ask each teacher in a high school to submit a copy of a typical test in his or her subject and put all the tests together in a packet. Then every teacher would receive a copy of the packet and have to take it like one long test test. My prediction is that each teacher would do really well on his or her own section (duh) but wouldn't have a clue about the other subjects. This would demonstrate the fact that our education system badly needs to be reformed. I wish we could learn more practical things like how a microwave works or how to use the stock market.

So they will be educated enough to know what their own interests are, and they have a better chance at going after the college degree they really want. I do however think that in today's world with so much global competition that science and math need to be stressed alot more than subjects like history and even english.

Okay...anyone got a "clever" excuse for having our children FORCED to read Shakespeare--in ENGLISH class??? If anyone TRULY spoke "english" in the form that HE wrote--wouldn't that person be considered IGNORANT, or UNEDUCATED??? PTOOEY!