Did You Learn Anything In School?

[jaF0]

I'm talking real school, not the pay to play Uni stuff. K-12 stuff that they force you to attend or send you to jail in some places. The stuff that if you don't do well and get a sheet of paper with some fancy scribbles, you have trouble finding work.

Did you learn anything there? Do you still use it?

Or was it just a few hours a day for a bunch of years that you couldn't wait to get done with?

 

[ydahecnot]

I learned that going from an all-boys high school to a major state university had me playing catch-up on girl watching for four years

 

[Cindy027]

Did you learn anything there? Do you still use it?

Yes, every day.

 

[gga]

I learned stuff in K-12 that I still use. (Well, primarily 8-12. I don't use macaroni art much anymore.). I learned specifically where my strengths (math, tech, history) and weaknesses (social skills) were.

I also learned not to to always rely on your guidance counselor for, well, guidance.

I was told that since I was really strong in math that I'd love a career as an accountant. While the skills overlap, math =/= accounting.

I essentially wasted 3 semesters taking classes related to that major before I accepted that it wasn't my thing. Switched to Computer Info Systems, spent the next couple years catching up, and actually did better in school after the switch because I had a different attitude.

I've been happily employed in the IT industry for the last 30+ years.

 

[PandemicReader8]

I got lucky. In high school I learned how to think and form opinions. In college I learned how to research and inform those opinions. In grad school I learned how to lie through my teeth to career ivory tower types who had no idea there was a world - with facts other than those they'd deemed "true" - outside their classroom.

 

[Dribble]

School K-12 is about learning how to put up with ignorant assholes. So yea...I use the skills I learned then every single day. Sad but true.

 

[AlexBailey]

I had a very mixed early school experience. My family was fucked up so school was a good distraction and I was able to dive into the sciences.

Being a kid was tough for me, school was probably better for learning a broad range of topics than starting a job at 13 would have been.

 

[jaF0]

It's where I started to learn how much I hate people.

 

[AlexBailey]

It's where I started to learn how much I hate people.

Do you think that was because of school? Or do you think that’s just where you were when you figured that out?

I never took misanthropy.