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What is the purpose of school?

So before you judge me and automatically call me a delinquent, I have a 3.9 GPA and a 27 on my first ACT try. I just want to know why they make us sit through boring and pointless classes. Examples: English: This is almost as bad as it gets. Learning how to write is important, but there is nothing important about reading books we have no interest in. We recently have been reading Dickens. HIs works are god awful but because so many people love them, we are forced to read and analyze those things to death. We pull things out of those books that I guarantee the author hadn't planned on being in there. Learning how to analyze works won't help me one bit in life. Please explain how you think it will. Math: Basic math is enough isn't it. My dad doesn't even know what a logarithm is and he lives a completely normal life and makes great money. Advanced math teaches completely meaningless mathematical equations and theorems. Please try to explain how I could ever use any of this. Science: Maybe the basics but Chemistry and Physics are a waaste of time... The law of falling bodies has never helped anyone balance a check book or pay their taxes. Learning the laws of kinetic and potential energy don't make my life any easier. History: History is important to learn but there is no need to go into how Republican mother hood affected the Revolution or how the Webster-Ashburton Treaties got us little chunks of land. I know that they may affect what my career choice is but I can guarantee whatever I go into wil not involve analyzing boring azz books or pre calculus. Someone please explain to me why we can't just study things that interest us instead of being forced to take these stupid classes.

Public Comments

1. Delinquent!
2. School is important. A lot of what you learn isn't really pertinent, but its actually not about the information as much as its about training your mind to receive information. And it does make you a more productive member of society. Think about those people out there who took the easy way out and didn't learn any of that stuff, and then think about the people you know who probably retained a lot of that stuff from high school. Which group have the better jobs? Who went to college? Who makes more money? And I can tell you right now if you think high school is bad, don't bother going to college. Cause you will have to take some STUPID stuff in college. I can also tell with your attitude it won't matter what anyone says, you're going to think this way and that's that. But be careful what you shut your mind down to.
3. So just drop out and mop floors for a living.
4. School is really important for every student. You learn to sit, to speak and learn in school only.
5. Some of the things you just said, would be needed in other fields of study. The literature, well.. a professor in English would have to know that (soon to be). People in the science field, the chemistry! Architects, physics I believe? Even dentists need physics. All that calculus crap.. engineers and whatnot. The easy going businessman wouldn't need to know any of that but someone out there besides you would. Also that's what college is for. What interests you and you would learn what you want to learn. However there are some classes you'd have to take.. like English 101.. which I am against -___-.... I won't need it in my major.