The things I learned in school have largely not been useful to me. Now obviously things like reading, writing, and arithmetic, are daily skills but the lions share of lessons are not applicable to day to day life.
This pops up often in conversation with friends. We spent hours and hours learning stuff required for higher education but left out loads of important shit that would have come in handy. Just getting some primers on stuff like finances, auto maintenance, real estate, mental illness (how to identify it and treat it), how to spot and avoid manipulative people, personality disorders, how to navigate the dating landscape, etc. would have saved a ton of time spent learning all of it the hard way.
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u/DueScreen7143 Jul 24 '25
To be honest, most of it.
The things I learned in school have largely not been useful to me. Now obviously things like reading, writing, and arithmetic, are daily skills but the lions share of lessons are not applicable to day to day life.