I beg to differ Science, Chemistry and Physics helped make me the nerdy, brilliant, underemployed person that stands before you today! My most hated useless subject was Geography!
I was sailing once from Los Angeles to Hawaii and the GPS unit stopped working. It was not my boat but we should still have had a spare and we didn't. I carry a sextant with me for problems like this. In this case my sextant and some math got us to Hawaii. Make sure that your life and your plans don't depend on your navigation equipment always working if it's electronic.
They never offered anatomy in my high school. I thought that was only for college pre med. Seems to me they got too much other stuff to learn besides anatomy in high school. Maybe it's a form of sex ed?
I took chemistry and biology in highschool and physics in college. I don't think any of them were a waste of time. Though I do have a science degree and a science job.
I opted out of classes like calculus or trigonometry. Algebra II was the highest I went and I had trouble with that, so I knew I would never get the other two.
I was taught in The Netherlands, so the system is quite different, but I ended up learning a lot about trigonometry, statistics, matrices, the imaginary system, collections and encryption. We went quite far eventually.
They weren't here. I would have done better had I taken something like wood shop since I like working with wood. But at the time I only knew how to burn it, not cut it.
which is why I've paid two different sets of classes for my niece (guitar and drawing lessons) anything to keep her away from smartphones for some hours a week
That is funny, but the reality was that we did do some dangerous things like putting a penny in nitric acid which makes a poisonous gas. The teacher put the mess in a ventilator cover. Used to put acid in others 'workbooks" Really stupid things to do, but we were stupid as Juniors.
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High school classes I would say were all useful in an educational sense. I have a couple of laughable ones from college though.
I beg to differ Science, Chemistry and Physics helped make me the nerdy, brilliant, underemployed person that stands before you today! My most hated useless subject was Geography!
But at least with Geography you know where you are - with the help of your phone's GPS.
With GPS, I ALWAYS know where I am, so why do I need Geography class to tell me that? What a waste of time and place!
I was sailing once from Los Angeles to Hawaii and the GPS unit stopped working. It was not my boat but we should still have had a spare and we didn't. I carry a sextant with me for problems like this. In this case my sextant and some math got us to Hawaii. Make sure that your life and your plans don't depend on your navigation equipment always working if it's electronic.
I'm a firm believer in more traditional geonavigation!
Great! Have you ever used celestial navigation?
I took science, chemistry, physics, biology in high school.
I'm actually still in high school now and as my science class I'm taking anatomy which is like study of the human body
They never offered anatomy in my high school. I thought that was only for college pre med. Seems to me they got too much other stuff to learn besides anatomy in high school. Maybe it's a form of sex ed?
I took both Physics & Chemistry but they both helped in my study of electrical technology.
I took all of those which have no practical use but are interesting. Worst course in terms of usefulness was calculus although it was fun.
Fun? How was math fun?
Fun for me
I took chemistry and biology in highschool and physics in college. I don't think any of them were a waste of time. Though I do have a science degree and a science job.
I didn't go for latin, but otherwise I got the entire science package. Heck, I even had math twice, we had advanced math on top of the regular math.
(Also, I use a lot of physics and math daily, so it really wasn't a waste, it's a massive boon)
I opted out of classes like calculus or trigonometry. Algebra II was the highest I went and I had trouble with that, so I knew I would never get the other two.
I was taught in The Netherlands, so the system is quite different, but I ended up learning a lot about trigonometry, statistics, matrices, the imaginary system, collections and encryption. We went quite far eventually.
None of these. I picked my native language, history, English language ( it's not my first) and german language.
science is a false religion
school is indoctrination
true knowledge comes from CHRIST
yes, they are all basic and compulsory in here
They weren't here. I would have done better had I taken something like wood shop since I like working with wood. But at the time I only knew how to burn it, not cut it.
Japanese wood work and joinery would have been amazing
A lot of crafts are dying because they don't teach that stuff in college.
right... crafts and other things as well
which is why I've paid two different sets of classes for my niece (guitar and drawing lessons) anything to keep her away from smartphones for some hours a week
Good plan. Make sure to keep her away from G@G.
everyone I know... is kept away from G@G, if I can help it...
I took physics, chemistry and mathematics
I took Biology, Chemistry and Physics.
I took all 3 in high school too.
Biology and Chemistry in college.
I took Chemistry.
Did you blow the lab up?
That is funny, but the reality was that we did do some dangerous things like putting a penny in nitric acid which makes a poisonous gas. The teacher put the mess in a ventilator cover. Used to put acid in others 'workbooks" Really stupid things to do, but we were stupid as Juniors.
I did take them yes.
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