aries2756: I don’t think learning first aid, how to cook, etc. is silly. The only class I really think was silly is my Home Ec class. But that wasn’t even my point. Actually, you pretty much hit on my main grievance here:
In all honesty in all my years post High School, and I am a bubby of quite a few at the moment, I never had to know any of the “mi amar l’mi” post High School ever again. Nor did I have a need to know any dates, that we were tested on through the 4 years. There were thousands of bits and pieces of information that I never had to use again.
When I was in HS, a bunch of my classmates were once venting to a teacher about how they thought a certain class (French) wasn’t a good idea – too much work for not enough application. The teacher answered that that’s not the point of education. We don’t go to school just to acquire skills of tangible value, because in the long run, that’s not enough. Every piece of knowledge you acquire, she said, however trivial it may seem to you, enhances you as a person.