Have You learned anything in school?

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I was able to retain information long enough to get a decent grade and then it was all gone. I remember bits and pieces. They really don't teach you how to think critically.

I feel they should teach more critical thinking skills. They also don't work with problem solving skills.

I didn't have much of a problem with the former when I got to college, but when I comes to solving a problem, my brain bounces all over the place....it's very disorganized. That could just be me though.

I also felt they should have also explained more about the quality of sources for papers. They may do this now, I'm not sure.

A cynical response to your comment could be that people in general learn very little (of real benefit) in school.

The education system employed in most countries and certainly in Western countries was developed in Prussia to produce soldiers and factory workers/employees.

The purpose of High School is for you to graduate High School.

The same applies to my Science degree.

The purpose of that period of study was to graduate from Universtiy.


I use almost NOTHING that I learned at school or University in my daily life (I was reading very confidently before I went to school and there was NOTHING that I learned in mathematics that I could not have learned from a book, staying at home)

The Universities are filled with students and employees that do and will retire into poverty.

There are people with IQ's in the top percentile who are on welfare or working in menial jobs and there are people who genuinely stuggled at school due to lack of academic ability and who are highly successful, productive, happy and financial well off/independent.

To return to your point about having things sink in, reading a book or listening to a lecture are the two most INEFFECTIVE methods of learning (and therefore teaching)

Google the 'Cone of learning' for a one page picture description.

This has been around since around 1946 and still the schools and universities keep on doing what they have always done and getting what they have always got.

The fact that you think that you havent learned anything should be an encouragement to find a better way to learn AND to learn things that are really worth learning.

Good luck

I can't think of many average people that use algebra, trigonometry, or physics in their daily life!

Exactly and I don't know anyone who was 'taught' entrepreneurship and lateral problem solving at school.

The only thing I learned in public school was that everyone hated me and that I should have never been born. I learned more in five minnutes of being homeschooled than in five years of public school.

The only thing that I've learned in school, is that most young people hate people who are different.