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What's the most useless thing you learned (or are still learning) at school? For me it was poetry. We were forced to memorize pointless crap and regurgitate it during exams. The poetry itself was slightly bearable, but they expected the damned *punctuation* to be identical to the original. I wonder how many of those kids there actually found it useful. Maybe somebody became Professor of Punctuation in some obscure university. :rolleyes: Coming to think of it, everything that had to be memorized was like torture to me. History for example. Who gives a damn about when each king ruled our country? (I guess it could be useful when arguing in the Soapbox over who should apologize to whom for what crime ;) ) I'm sure one of the reasons people ask damn fool questions in QA is because they memorized and blindly passed school exams, and eventually found out that real life was slightly different.
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What's the most useless thing you learned (or are still learning) at school? For me it was poetry. We were forced to memorize pointless crap and regurgitate it during exams. The poetry itself was slightly bearable, but they expected the damned *punctuation* to be identical to the original. I wonder how many of those kids there actually found it useful. Maybe somebody became Professor of Punctuation in some obscure university. :rolleyes: Coming to think of it, everything that had to be memorized was like torture to me. History for example. Who gives a damn about when each king ruled our country? (I guess it could be useful when arguing in the Soapbox over who should apologize to whom for what crime ;) ) I'm sure one of the reasons people ask damn fool questions in QA is because they memorized and blindly passed school exams, and eventually found out that real life was slightly different.
Based, on the description it seems you are referring to School system in India where marks are for Just memorizing everything and repeating it back in paper. That is no good for any subject. When you are in school, you can never know what you would do in future or your interest will take you. So Anything you learnt in school has some value. Poetry is not bad at all if you can understand the context and style etc. Same as history, I found them fascinating and how each ruler or leader thought that he was correct at his time but how wrong he was.
aaryan42 wrote:
I'm sure one of the reasons people ask damn fool questions in QA is because they memorized and blindly passed school exams, and eventually found out that real life was slightly different.
Don't want to paint the general picture but I think this comes from the pathetic schooling in India. At least here, they recognize for the effort you do to do differently.
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What's the most useless thing you learned (or are still learning) at school? For me it was poetry. We were forced to memorize pointless crap and regurgitate it during exams. The poetry itself was slightly bearable, but they expected the damned *punctuation* to be identical to the original. I wonder how many of those kids there actually found it useful. Maybe somebody became Professor of Punctuation in some obscure university. :rolleyes: Coming to think of it, everything that had to be memorized was like torture to me. History for example. Who gives a damn about when each king ruled our country? (I guess it could be useful when arguing in the Soapbox over who should apologize to whom for what crime ;) ) I'm sure one of the reasons people ask damn fool questions in QA is because they memorized and blindly passed school exams, and eventually found out that real life was slightly different.
Depends on the teacher. Looks like you had not-so-good teachers for those subjects. No subject is useless, IMHO. Each subject is capable of giving rise to a glorious career, if only pursued seriously and with perseverance, persistence.
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Depends on the teacher. Looks like you had not-so-good teachers for those subjects. No subject is useless, IMHO. Each subject is capable of giving rise to a glorious career, if only pursued seriously and with perseverance, persistence.
I had by then more or less decided what career path I was going to pursue. Poetry & history were just a waste of time. There should be freedom of choice, but then I guess our parents would have forced us to take whatever subjects they thought would make the most promising career. :sigh:
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What's the most useless thing you learned (or are still learning) at school? For me it was poetry. We were forced to memorize pointless crap and regurgitate it during exams. The poetry itself was slightly bearable, but they expected the damned *punctuation* to be identical to the original. I wonder how many of those kids there actually found it useful. Maybe somebody became Professor of Punctuation in some obscure university. :rolleyes: Coming to think of it, everything that had to be memorized was like torture to me. History for example. Who gives a damn about when each king ruled our country? (I guess it could be useful when arguing in the Soapbox over who should apologize to whom for what crime ;) ) I'm sure one of the reasons people ask damn fool questions in QA is because they memorized and blindly passed school exams, and eventually found out that real life was slightly different.
Actually i could put nearly everything to use at some point. Even if it was just a useless discussion for fun. Though the most valuable thing i learned during school and university was how to get information, precess it, understand it and evaluate the result i generated with it. Basically this is the most important thing, if you know how to teach your self you can learn everything.
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What's the most useless thing you learned (or are still learning) at school? For me it was poetry. We were forced to memorize pointless crap and regurgitate it during exams. The poetry itself was slightly bearable, but they expected the damned *punctuation* to be identical to the original. I wonder how many of those kids there actually found it useful. Maybe somebody became Professor of Punctuation in some obscure university. :rolleyes: Coming to think of it, everything that had to be memorized was like torture to me. History for example. Who gives a damn about when each king ruled our country? (I guess it could be useful when arguing in the Soapbox over who should apologize to whom for what crime ;) ) I'm sure one of the reasons people ask damn fool questions in QA is because they memorized and blindly passed school exams, and eventually found out that real life was slightly different.
That's a really difficult question, looking back at it from the vantage point of my advanced years! In school, and for quite a few years after, I could point at any subject - more or less - and say "I never used it! Why did I have to learn it!" But...most of it has been used in one form or another, even the Geography, the Statistics, the Latin. And more importantly, it teaches interest in learning; the "habit" of learning; how to learn. Yes, there were whole weeks where if I hadn't been there it wouldn't have made any real difference in the long run. But they were part of a whole: teaching you to learn, rather than a subject. And that's very, very different!
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What's the most useless thing you learned (or are still learning) at school? For me it was poetry. We were forced to memorize pointless crap and regurgitate it during exams. The poetry itself was slightly bearable, but they expected the damned *punctuation* to be identical to the original. I wonder how many of those kids there actually found it useful. Maybe somebody became Professor of Punctuation in some obscure university. :rolleyes: Coming to think of it, everything that had to be memorized was like torture to me. History for example. Who gives a damn about when each king ruled our country? (I guess it could be useful when arguing in the Soapbox over who should apologize to whom for what crime ;) ) I'm sure one of the reasons people ask damn fool questions in QA is because they memorized and blindly passed school exams, and eventually found out that real life was slightly different.
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I had by then more or less decided what career path I was going to pursue. Poetry & history were just a waste of time. There should be freedom of choice, but then I guess our parents would have forced us to take whatever subjects they thought would make the most promising career. :sigh:
aaryan42 wrote:
Poetry & history were just a waste of time.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." --- George Santayana History is full of examples that we really should not forget. And if they don't teach it to everybody, how would you even know it had ever happened? Poetry? That's a difficult one. I tend to follow Heinlein: "A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits."
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What's the most useless thing you learned (or are still learning) at school? For me it was poetry. We were forced to memorize pointless crap and regurgitate it during exams. The poetry itself was slightly bearable, but they expected the damned *punctuation* to be identical to the original. I wonder how many of those kids there actually found it useful. Maybe somebody became Professor of Punctuation in some obscure university. :rolleyes: Coming to think of it, everything that had to be memorized was like torture to me. History for example. Who gives a damn about when each king ruled our country? (I guess it could be useful when arguing in the Soapbox over who should apologize to whom for what crime ;) ) I'm sure one of the reasons people ask damn fool questions in QA is because they memorized and blindly passed school exams, and eventually found out that real life was slightly different.
Conjugating verbs. Really?
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What's the most useless thing you learned (or are still learning) at school? For me it was poetry. We were forced to memorize pointless crap and regurgitate it during exams. The poetry itself was slightly bearable, but they expected the damned *punctuation* to be identical to the original. I wonder how many of those kids there actually found it useful. Maybe somebody became Professor of Punctuation in some obscure university. :rolleyes: Coming to think of it, everything that had to be memorized was like torture to me. History for example. Who gives a damn about when each king ruled our country? (I guess it could be useful when arguing in the Soapbox over who should apologize to whom for what crime ;) ) I'm sure one of the reasons people ask damn fool questions in QA is because they memorized and blindly passed school exams, and eventually found out that real life was slightly different.
aaryan42 wrote:
What's the most useless thing you learned (or are still learning) at school?
The difference between the Calabrian and the Middle Pleistocene, and when they started. This was part of "geography"-lessons, roughly aimed at highschool. Pretty useless knowledge in everyday life.
aaryan42 wrote:
For me it was poetry.
Never had it in school (that I can remember), but I do love poetry - might be due to the fact that we didn't need to memorize examples thereof, so I only stumbled over a few things that I actually liked.
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What's the most useless thing you learned (or are still learning) at school? For me it was poetry. We were forced to memorize pointless crap and regurgitate it during exams. The poetry itself was slightly bearable, but they expected the damned *punctuation* to be identical to the original. I wonder how many of those kids there actually found it useful. Maybe somebody became Professor of Punctuation in some obscure university. :rolleyes: Coming to think of it, everything that had to be memorized was like torture to me. History for example. Who gives a damn about when each king ruled our country? (I guess it could be useful when arguing in the Soapbox over who should apologize to whom for what crime ;) ) I'm sure one of the reasons people ask damn fool questions in QA is because they memorized and blindly passed school exams, and eventually found out that real life was slightly different.
If anything, phys ed.
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If anything, phys ed.
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If anything, phys ed.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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aaryan42 wrote:
Poetry & history were just a waste of time.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." --- George Santayana History is full of examples that we really should not forget. And if they don't teach it to everybody, how would you even know it had ever happened? Poetry? That's a difficult one. I tend to follow Heinlein: "A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits."
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Everyone has their own version of history, or at least their own interpretation of events. I doubt it makes much difference what they teach. I'm not saying there should be no history taught whatsoever, just that forcing us to memorize dates for exams was a waste of time.
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What's the most useless thing you learned (or are still learning) at school? For me it was poetry. We were forced to memorize pointless crap and regurgitate it during exams. The poetry itself was slightly bearable, but they expected the damned *punctuation* to be identical to the original. I wonder how many of those kids there actually found it useful. Maybe somebody became Professor of Punctuation in some obscure university. :rolleyes: Coming to think of it, everything that had to be memorized was like torture to me. History for example. Who gives a damn about when each king ruled our country? (I guess it could be useful when arguing in the Soapbox over who should apologize to whom for what crime ;) ) I'm sure one of the reasons people ask damn fool questions in QA is because they memorized and blindly passed school exams, and eventually found out that real life was slightly different.
at least look at the useless areas of study as fodder to chat up the sex of your sexual preference (as well as a waste of money)!
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What's the most useless thing you learned (or are still learning) at school? For me it was poetry. We were forced to memorize pointless crap and regurgitate it during exams. The poetry itself was slightly bearable, but they expected the damned *punctuation* to be identical to the original. I wonder how many of those kids there actually found it useful. Maybe somebody became Professor of Punctuation in some obscure university. :rolleyes: Coming to think of it, everything that had to be memorized was like torture to me. History for example. Who gives a damn about when each king ruled our country? (I guess it could be useful when arguing in the Soapbox over who should apologize to whom for what crime ;) ) I'm sure one of the reasons people ask damn fool questions in QA is because they memorized and blindly passed school exams, and eventually found out that real life was slightly different.
Entire degree useless :) Did Electronic + Electrical engineering. Got corporate sponsorshop from a power cable manufacturing company. Pretty much from day 1 after graduation and into employment, found myself working on Access databases and VB 4 -> 5 -> 6 applications for the company's statistical process control (manufacture -> test -> feedback loop). 2 years in and went into dedicated software development (might as well get paid for it eh?) haven't applied knowledge of electrical power systems since.....
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What's the most useless thing you learned (or are still learning) at school? For me it was poetry. We were forced to memorize pointless crap and regurgitate it during exams. The poetry itself was slightly bearable, but they expected the damned *punctuation* to be identical to the original. I wonder how many of those kids there actually found it useful. Maybe somebody became Professor of Punctuation in some obscure university. :rolleyes: Coming to think of it, everything that had to be memorized was like torture to me. History for example. Who gives a damn about when each king ruled our country? (I guess it could be useful when arguing in the Soapbox over who should apologize to whom for what crime ;) ) I'm sure one of the reasons people ask damn fool questions in QA is because they memorized and blindly passed school exams, and eventually found out that real life was slightly different.
School itself was useless. I'm not being flippant - I could have learned more, and more interesting things, if my parents and teachers had promoted self-learning. But then again, I was probably (no, make that definitely) too stupid to take advantage of the resources that were available, which is another failing of school and parenting. Marc
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You got me, uncle.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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What's the most useless thing you learned (or are still learning) at school? For me it was poetry. We were forced to memorize pointless crap and regurgitate it during exams. The poetry itself was slightly bearable, but they expected the damned *punctuation* to be identical to the original. I wonder how many of those kids there actually found it useful. Maybe somebody became Professor of Punctuation in some obscure university. :rolleyes: Coming to think of it, everything that had to be memorized was like torture to me. History for example. Who gives a damn about when each king ruled our country? (I guess it could be useful when arguing in the Soapbox over who should apologize to whom for what crime ;) ) I'm sure one of the reasons people ask damn fool questions in QA is because they memorized and blindly passed school exams, and eventually found out that real life was slightly different.
The most useless thing I learned in school? The assembly language for this beast[^]. And I'm not speaking figuratively either, that exact machine -- they got it from my alma mater.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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What's the most useless thing you learned (or are still learning) at school? For me it was poetry. We were forced to memorize pointless crap and regurgitate it during exams. The poetry itself was slightly bearable, but they expected the damned *punctuation* to be identical to the original. I wonder how many of those kids there actually found it useful. Maybe somebody became Professor of Punctuation in some obscure university. :rolleyes: Coming to think of it, everything that had to be memorized was like torture to me. History for example. Who gives a damn about when each king ruled our country? (I guess it could be useful when arguing in the Soapbox over who should apologize to whom for what crime ;) ) I'm sure one of the reasons people ask damn fool questions in QA is because they memorized and blindly passed school exams, and eventually found out that real life was slightly different.
It's the difference between college and trade school. Part of the college experience is learning history and cultural crap to refine you...and in the mean time, provide careers for lots of fine arts and history professors who would be otherwise unemployed. :laugh: The most useless crap I learned at school: 0: Fine arts classes (I only took visual and music) 1: History (ok, it's come in handy a few times for trivia) 2: World Literature 3: Sociology and Psychology 101 3: PE It's a shame that these are (or at least used to be) required courses regardless of major. :) For instance, if I'm a CIS/CS major why should I be required to take any of the above classes? OTOH, why should an art major be required to take algebra?
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