Why spend so much time studying in school?

Question

Does anyone ever wonder why we spend so much of our life studying in school for things that we never get to use in real life anyway? Like Mathematics (real life we only need to know how to add and substract), histroy, geography, art, music???

Answer 1

Hold on a minute...You have succumbed to a couple of fallacies:

1. The skills that you learn in school are the building blocks for the life skills that you will use outside of school. Do we as teachers often fail to demonstrate the relevance of the curricula? Absolutely. However, it is relevant.

2. Have you ever been in a CD or clothing shop and eyed an item you would like to buy, only to realize that you didn't have enough money? Have you figured out how much you lack? If so, you just used algebra. Have you ever rearranged your furniture and mentally figured out if it would fit? You used geometry and Trigonometry. Have you ever read a map? You used cartography and geography. Have you ever decorated your abode in a way that pleased you? You used art. Have you ever hummed a tune in your head to figure out what song it was? You used music.

So, as you can see, you spend a brief period of your life learning the basic skills that you will need for the rest of your life.

Answer 2

We spend so much time studying because there is so much to learn. Do you really think adding and 'substracting' (you obviously needed a little more time in spelling) is enough? Have you ever made out a budget? Done your taxes? figured out how much paint you need to cover a wall?
You don't think 'histroy' (whoops! more spelling classes are indicated) is important? It doesn't matter how the world situation got to be the way it is? You don't need to know how various political parties behaved in the past before you cast your vote?
You don't think learning about art and music are important? Think what a day without either would be like!
The things you learn in school are likely outdated by the time you graduate, but they are the basis on which you can build and expand your knowledge. Everyone isn't going to be an engineer, or a computing scientist, but if you have learned basic maths and science in school, when it comes time to make a decision, you'll be equipped to do so. It would be a bummer to spend your first year in university learning long division!

Answer 3

If you are talking about the US, we have a sick education system.
We have a system where the fox is watching the hen house.

Most people don't look at it this way, but what I mean is that the people that are telling you how valuable your education is, (testing you for knowledge) are the ones whose job depends on how much junk they can make you learn in the process.

The people that do the testing and the people that do the education should not be economically associated with each other.

The people that do the testing should be associated closer to the people that employ the skills of the people than the people that are doing the educating.

There is a real conflict of interest here. This is the reason behind the high cost of education in this country and the reason we have to learn so much that we never use and we don't learn what we really need to learn.

The real fact is that the people that are doing the educating don't know what is really needed. They just think they do, and they talk a good story.

Wake up America.

If those two entity's were separate our education system would heal itself.

Answer 4

If you've found yourself in the US public education system, I suggest dropping out at the soonest opportunity. Enroll in Community College. Emancipate yourself, get your tuition for next to nothing. High School is just a holding camp for people, a horrible jail of indoctrination, gtfo out of there fast.

You can transfer to a state school easily within a year or two if you choose. You'll have your BA in something or other by the time you're 18. No decent job will come your way without a college degree.. plus you learn many critical tools and ways of analysis in college. In HS-- you learn to wake up at 6am, that's about the extent of what I learned there.

Answer 5

It is amazing what school can teach you besides just the content of the subjects you are learning. You learn about working with others, tolerating those who may not see your view point, how to express yourself so that others understand you as in speaking and writing. As far as math, you need so much more than just adding and subtracting. Ever follow a recipe? How about laying tile or carpet? These are geometry solutions.

Answer 6

So how many companies you know are gonna offer a job to someone with only a high school degree?

And to get a degree in college or beyond, you gotta know how to do all that crap, no matter how useless they are.

I don't know about you, but I want to make it big in life.

Answer 7

Well, studies are the basis of what u be in the future. If u don't have any kind of knowledge, th it's gonna affect ur life. But I agree with u abt Maths..some lessons are crap!

Answer 8

Yes to get good grades and to be a well rounded person.