Which part of your education did you need most to unlearn?

Question

Which part of what you were taught bore least resemblance to reality and needed to be thrown overboard?

Expectations that people would be rational, honest, cooperative, articulate...?

People, I said 'unlearn', not 'forget' or 'ignore'.
I didn't mean 'correct but useless information', I meant 'actively dangerous assumptions to proceed on'.

So 'ALGEBRA' or the 'Dewey Decimal System' don't work. Try harder.

Answer 1

That hard work will result in being rewarded. That employers actually care about their people. That a good education will result in a good paying job.

Answer 2

The f**king duey decimal system!!!!!!!!

(Library numbers according to subjects)

I think it was THE most useless thing to teach ANYONE....

I also hate that c**t that made me feel like that was so important when I was small to this day....

She was an evil witch too, permanent psychological scars.......



EDIT: Oh, OK, I get it.
Well, as sacreligious as it sounds, I wish no one embedded into my head the concept of a devil, of hell and having to pray memorized prayers like the apostles creed, demons and saints, the bible, and Catholic mythology.
I think I could have done without all that useless nonsense while growing up.,
There were about 1 million better, more useful and enlightening things I could have learned in place of the time wasted learning about the Saints, Satan and the stations of the cross.
In my opinion it's much more useful and mind expanding to teach science, geography, history, Literature and math in it's place, and more ethical as I see it.
I would rather have learned three other languages in the place of all the useless mythological information and obsession about men in the middle east 2000 years ago.
... sorry holy rollers, that's just how I feel.

...but I'm still glad I shared about the dewey decimal system...this time spelled correctly,
SEE! I STILL can't get it right! Let that witch turn in her grave...

Answer 3

History, especially U.S. History. For example, we were taught that the Civil War was fought to end slavery, and we know that is not true. Or, that Columbus 'discovered' America. Nothing was ever said, read, taught, written or discussed about the Native Americans and their decimation by white people, and all the lying the U.S. Government violating treaties with the indigenous people, , the Trail of Tears, etc.

Answer 4

Although history books have changed, when I grew up, there were no blacks or Hispanic people recognized as important contributors to society. I definitely unlearned that.

Learning to teach. Once you learn a strategy, they change it on you and say no, it was all a myth...what you really have to do is...

Unlearning how to subract...you don't "borrow or carry over" you REGROUP groups of ten.

Pluto is no longer a planet.

Answer 5

The notion that you have to follow the rules or it will go down on your permanent record.

Don't get me wrong, laws exist for a reason. It's expectations I'm thinking of. For example, my teachers and my parents drummed it into my head that the goal in life was to climb as far up the career ladder as I could. For some people, that might be exactly what they want. It took me years to realize that I don't have to follow their script. I don't have to make work the center of my life; I can consider it just one facet of life that enables the other, more interesting parts.

And as for that permanent record, don't believe it. You can recreate yourself every day. There's no mistake so big that it automatically dooms you to failure.

Answer 6

Maybe my music class. It was boring and I didn't understand one bit, so I'm wondering what was there to unlearn. Or detention.

And my 5th Grade teacher's "love life". She was married, yet the way she stood by other men really...ugh. She always talked about herself, and we could've taken a test and aced it with all that time she spent talking about herself...

Answer 7

I would like to unlearn the part that made me so afraid of finishing things.I have the feeling I never do things the way I should have, so It's really difficult to end things.
It's like I 'm supposed to everything perfectly and I don't so I have to keep trying indefinitely...
And inspite of this, it seems that i have a certain success...
sorry I didn't mean to make you listen to my troubles........

Answer 8

ALGEBRA! The most useless classes of my life and I hated every minute of it too. I was a good student, but Algebra, what a waste of time. When I think of the way I could've used that class time, on a subject I enjoyed that I could use in my adult life, I could scream. Added to that, the worst teachers seemed to teach that subject too. I wonder if they were as bored to death as I was?

Answer 9

My social science degree. I found it e great hindrance to learning science.

Answer 10

the ENTIRE BASIS of it, in which you are graded based on what you learned. In real life you are not evaluated on the actual quality of your work, but on ...something else.