10th grade+ required classes are useless

[BuildaBox]

I could just be the only one thinking this, but in my opinion most required classes for 10th grade and up are completely useless. Education needs to keep up with technology. If you want to find something out you can just look it up online, there's no use in requiring it to be learned in highschool grades. If you're thinking "Well where is the information online supposed to come from", well, if you want to be a math guy or chemist or whatever then you should be required to take these classes. Then you go to college and become an expert and then people who choose to will put up the information and online calculators in the Internet.

These required classes should be replaced with classes that help you move forward in your career choice. Not useless information that has nothing to do with what you want to be when you grow up.

What is the forums' thoughts?

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[Menen]

School doesn't always teach you knowledge, it also teaches you how to learn.

[Waru]

School doesn't always teach you knowledge, it also teaches you how to learn.

what the forget

we learn how to learn and when we are done learning to learn theres no more learning to do

[Doomonkey]

Language after 8th grade unless it is grammar/syntax/vocabulary - Useless
History - Kind of important
Math - Basic is important, advanced math can be really really useful or useless
Science - Important to know if you don't want to look like an idiot
Government - Very important

[A GUY]

we learn how to learn and when we are done learning to learn theres no more learning to do

You ... you are the chosen one!

[Gojira]

History is an important course. If you don't learn from it, it'll repeat itself.
Math is also important.

[SeventhSandwich]

School doesn't always teach you knowledge, it also teaches you how to learn.

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[BuildaBox]

School doesn't always teach you knowledge, it also teaches you how to learn.

How does switching required classes for classes that help you learn more about what you want to do not "teach you how to learn"? In fact, it would probably "teach you how to learn" more because people won't be so bored and they will want to learn and they'll be more excited to learn.

Language after 8th grade unless it is grammar/syntax - Useless
History - Kind of important
Math - Basic is important, advanced math can be really really useful or useless
Science - Important to know if you don't want to look like an idiot
Government - Very important

I was thinking math and advanced science classes like chemistry and up. English is pretty important. History, not so much in my opinion.

[comr4de]

School doesn't always teach you knowledge, it also teaches you how to learn.

Menen is right, the classes in high school are not just for imparting knowledge, but helping grow study skills needed in tertiary education like college.

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SeventhSanwich, stuffting on Other People's Points since 2009

[A GUY]

History - Kind of important

Actually in my opinion History is very, very important. It's taught so future generations learn from mistakes that happened and we don't repeat it in the future. Where would we be if the colonists didn't have those guns to defend themselves from the British because of their rights?

[Doomonkey]

History is an important course. If you don't learn from it, it'll repeat itself.

Actually in my opinion History is very, very important. It's taught so future generations learn from mistakes that happened and we don't repeat it in the future. Where would we be if the colonists didn't have those guns to defend themselves from the British because of their rights?

You don't need to learn years worth of information though. You need to learn what went wrong, why, and why it was wrong (the consequences).

English is pretty important.

You will probably never write an essay for any job except journalism. All good business formats are short and pointed. Learning to appreciate literature is also pretty dumb because if you already hate books then a class won't help you.

[Gojira]

I was thinking math and advanced science classes like chemistry and up. English is pretty important. History, not so much in my opinion.

If people don't learn from it, it'll repeat itself.

You don't need to learn years worth of information though. You need to learn what went wrong, why, and why it was wrong (the consequences).

Ergo learning from it.

[A GUY]

You don't need to learn years worth of information though. You need to learn what went wrong, why, and why it was wrong (the consequences).

Yes, that's a good point. I like that.

[SlayerZ99]

Im taking :

Woodshop (Useful)
Health III (Not so useful)
U.S. History (Useful)
Algebra 2x (Useful)
Geometry (Very Useful)
Band (A little useful)
Chemistry (Very Useful)
Spanish 2 (Useful)
English 10 (Not useful)

Next year (11th) Ill be taking

Furniture and Production (Useful)
Wood 2 (Useful)
Pre-Calc X (Useful)
Calc X (Useful)
Gym (Sorta useful?)
English 11 (Usefull)
World History 2 (Sorta useful)
Spanish 3 (Useful)


Then 12th I plan on AP Statistics, AP Government, Spanish 4, 2 gym classes and some woodshops

I love history also!
But Math and Science will be the most useful in the career I want to pursue

[Messes]

I beg to differ. Economics is a senior course at our school, same with Civics.

Gotta lern2 write those checks and do taxes homeboy