Reply #56: Whoa -- my experience is 180 degrees from yours [View All]

[MrModerate]

I found nearly everything I learned in high school (not counting the factual errors promulgated by ill-paid and undereducated teachers) applied in real life. Math taught me how to balance my checkbook. Biology taught me how living systems interact, Social Studies taught me how cultures work and, frankly, set me on a path toward development as a social liberal, football taught me how individuals' strength is magnified by being part of a team, dealing with the principal's office taught me about red tape, and trying to make my way in the social system of the school was a proving ground for my theories about how to deal with people one-on-one. . . . the list goes on and on.

Perhaps it's just a matter of perspective or the point at which one realizes that they've "learned" something.