Why do teachers teach things we do not need in life.?

Answer 1

I know. Like evolution. It's a bunch of hooey! Thank goodness I had parents teach me the right way!

Answer 2

I taught on many grade levels over the years: grade school, high school and college. My students asked me the same thing. The response is simple:

You may not need this information right away, but someday you may! And, you may use the information in ways you had not planned. Like what? Let's say you are in a meeting with your boss and she wants to know something like, who painted that painting with all the dots? It's in a museum in Chicago? What's the name of that darn painting?

And, you may friend, with great powers of recall, will say, "Why, that's La Grande Jatte by Seurat!" She will think you are an intellectual power house and remember you at "raise" time!

Teachers hope you learn by doing. Problem solving and working through challenges are some skills they hope to pass on to you by teaching classes like history, biology, math, etc.

Just because you aren't using right away doesn't make it useless.

And, where would we all be without teachers? Think about it.

Answer 3

I know what you mean. I'm sitting in math class learning about pie, and geometrical shapes and calculus and I'm like...okay, I want to be a 1st grade teacher, not a engineer!

Well, the reason is b/c even though most likey you won't use all of this stuff you learned, teachers are required to teach it so that you DO have that knowledge, it's what you would call a requirement. LIke in college, almost no matter what you want to be, you have to take basic classes such as math, english, history etc. Like you might have to take a math class even though the career path you want has nothing to do with math!!

Ain't this world crazy haha.

Answer 4

I will agree to a point that some things are left out of curriculum. But anything learned is positive to you. You never know when a time will come and you might use that knowledge. Would be nice if there was a class that taught life skills, balancing a checkbook, living on a budget or responsible credit behavior.

Answer 5

You don't know what you are going to need in real life. My dad once saved a man's life with a silly poem. True story. Dad and Bob were working at Lockheed during WWII and Dad was showing off his knowledge of German by reciting a poem about a flower. Bob liked the poem and made Dad recite it to him until he had memorized it too. Later they were drafted and Bob became a tailgunner and was shot down behind enemy lines. He parachuted to the ground safely but was immediately surrounded by a band of fierce looking German soldiers pointing weapons at him. Finally someone asked him, Sprechen sie Deutsch? Having no other German at his command Bob recited the poem about the Forget-me-not. Instead of shooting him on the spot his captors lowered their weapons, laughed, and offered him food, water and cigarettes. When Dad and Bob met up after the war Bob said that he is convinced Dad's little poem saved his life.
I suggest you learn everything you possibly can because you never know what you are going to need.

Answer 6

You know I am 51 and I was still asking that question ten years ago. Lucky for me, I asked a college counselor I worked with. I always loved her reply. You do not learn to learn facts and information that you can look up...you learn because it teaches you a way of problem solving and a method of thinking things through.

Answer 7

So that you can pass a standardized test given by your state to comply with Bush's "No Child Left Behind" law. Many US schools now spend the entire academic year "teaching the test" to the detriment of all.

Answer 8

Well it depends what you mean.

One thing that teachers should teach is how to learn for yourself - to develop analytical and transferable skills to allow you to investigate and judge for yourself. In that sense it doesn't matter the topic you learn - astronomy - ancient Greece, volcanoes, water cycle. But you should come out with good investigative skills to apply to other things.

Answer 9

They teach you things you don't think you will need in life but you will us all that information in life. That is if you are going to have intellectual conversation

Answer 10

Because you need to react to the unknown. True, you won't need half of what you learn in school. But knowing how to excel in unfamiliar situations, apply reasoning, etc. is best learned in this way.

So pay attention, kid. This is great practice for real life.

Answer 11

Assuming that the teacher is doing a decent job, the study of subjects such as math, history, literature, and science make us use our brains in different ways. And brain exercise is something that not enough people do.