Most valuable lesson you learnt from school?

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• sodavlac Posts: 10,607

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  20/10/10 - 10:26 #2

  That I should have paid more attention in school.
  
  What happened in the library toilets? :eek:

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• burton07 Posts: 10,871

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  20/10/10 - 10:27 #3

  That the square of the hypotonuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the two opposing sides.

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• nessyfencer Posts: 9,195

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  20/10/10 - 10:29 #4

  That maths is short for mathematics.
  That only the select few get any help in life, the majority of people have to do things for themselves.

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• John259 Posts: 28,446

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  20/10/10 - 10:32 #5

  Percentages - especially interest rates!
  
  I was surprised how much trigonometry (sines, cosines and tangents) we had to use when I helped a friend to design some stands for archery targets.
  
  BTW, has anyone ever had the need to solve a quadratic equation in the real world?

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• netcurtains Posts: 23,494

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  20/10/10 - 10:34 #6

  It taught me to keep out of people's way because there's just no way of pleasing most of them and it's a hassle trying.

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• Vanilla_Slice Posts: 6,127

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  20/10/10 - 10:35 #7

  netcurtains wrote: »

  It taught me to keep out of people's way because there's just no way of pleasing most of them and it's a hassle trying.

  
  I hope the experience hasn't evolved you into a hermit.
  
  Math is fab. I do the times tables to help get to sleep!

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• Elphie_Lives Posts: 4,455

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  20/10/10 - 10:37 #8

  That life's a bitch.
  
  And that I'm really not an academic. Of course this hasn't made me change anything I'm still living how others want me to live, but at least now I don't feel bad about being bored rigid in lectures.

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• Frood Posts: 13,180

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  20/10/10 - 10:37 #9

  Headmaster's parting shot:
  
  "Screw the Government whenever you can. Because they'll screw you whenever they can."
  
  Particularly true on this day.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 5,512

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  20/10/10 - 10:38 #10

  That if I turn up without my kit I have to spend the next hour running around the playing field in my Superman pants.

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• KFA Posts: 3,382

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  20/10/10 - 10:39 #11

  Always check there is a chair under you when sitting down.

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• netcurtains Posts: 23,494

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  20/10/10 - 10:41 #12

  Vanilla_Slice wrote: »

  I hope the experience hasn't evolved you into a hermit.
  
  Math is fab. I do the times tables to help get to sleep!

  
  Hah no, not a hermit as such but I did learn early on that large institutions full of people being pretending to be nice while being unpleasant (and that includes the teachers) isn't really my cup of tea and is best avoided.

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• adopter Posts: 11,937

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  20/10/10 - 10:42 #13

  Don't get caught.

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• Fizzbin Posts: 36,827

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  20/10/10 - 10:45 #14

  From my Maths teacher. It was in relation to exam questions, but it applies to almost everything - especially TV murder mysteries.
  
  "Information is never given gratuitously."

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• Finlay Reader Posts: 1,231

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  20/10/10 - 10:48 #15

  KFA wrote: »

  Always check there is a chair under you when sitting down.

  
  Good one.
  
  

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• Hugh Jboobs Posts: 15,316

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  20/10/10 - 10:51 #16

  Don't bend over in the showers after PE.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 763

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  20/10/10 - 10:52 #17

  RiverChelt wrote: »

  That if I turn up without my kit I have to spend the next hour running around the playing field in my Superman pants.

  
  Nice!:D

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 1,716

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  20/10/10 - 10:54 #18

  Be wary of PE teachers.......

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• UKMikey Posts: 28,728

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  20/10/10 - 10:55 #19

  When life has put you into a position of power over the vulnerable, abuse it for all you're worth. But that's enough about the teachers.

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• KFA Posts: 3,382

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  20/10/10 - 10:55 #20

  RiverChelt wrote: »

  That if I turn up without my kit I have to spend the next hour running around the playing field in my Superman pants.

  
  That was one advantage of being a big lassie, even the PE teachers weren't nasty enough to make me do it in my knick knaks.
  
  Either that or they were worried about losing thier lunch.

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• 80sQueen Posts: 792

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  20/10/10 - 11:00 #21

  That if Frankie Goes to Hollywood had have recorded all the times tables and released it as a single, I would have been be a mathematical genius.

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• Andy Birkenhead Posts: 13,450

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  20/10/10 - 11:02 #22

  Vanilla_Slice wrote: »

  Mine was Math and don't go into the library toilets.
  
  Math has been very useful to me in Adult life.

  
  "MATH" ??
  Are you American ?
  The word is MATHS
  With an "S"

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• Hobbit Feet Posts: 18,798

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  20/10/10 - 11:05 #23

  Never cut the tail off your friends hair in Home Economics class. (it was the 80's and hers was longer then mine)
  
  I might have got away with it in Physics as the teacher just thought they were frivolous.

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• Picto Posts: 24,270

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  20/10/10 - 11:07 #24

  Bunsen burners are dangerous.

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• tysonstorm Posts: 24,609

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  20/10/10 - 11:10 #25

  Not to stand up to bullies.........because it causes you more trouble.
  
  Wearing glasses gets you picked on.
  
  School dinners are evil.

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• Miss_Moo Posts: 8,997

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  20/10/10 - 11:15 #26

  That your school days are not the happiest of your life...

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