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A new survey, conducted by OnePoll on behalf of H&R Block, found: The Ten Things We Wish We’d Learned in School… and the Ten Most Useless Things We Were Forced to Learn.
Here are the ten real-world skills we WISH we’d been taught instead . . .
1. Money management and budgeting.
2. How to do your taxes.
3. How to manage your emotional wellbeing and mental health.
4. Understanding credit cards and student loans.
5. How to negotiate.
6. Time management.
7. How to fix stuff around the house.
8. Relationship and conversational skills.
9. Car repair and car maintenance.
10. How to find a job.
The survey also asked people to name the most USELESS things they were forced to learn in school…
1. The Pythagorean theorem to figure out the dimensions of a triangle.
(The equation is A-squared, plus B-squared, equals C-squared.)
2. Knowing that Pi is 3.14.
3. Memorizing the periodic table of elements in chemistry.
4. Learning the different types of rocks . . . sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous.
5. Learning the parts on an atom.
6. Learning what mitochondria is . . . a.k.a., the “powerhouse of a cell.”
7. Naming all of the presidents in order.
8. Learning about osmosis. (It’s the, quote, “process by which molecules of a solvent tend to pass through a semipermeable membrane from a less concentrated solution into a more concentrated one.” Now you know.)
9. Learning how to make paper snowflakes in elementary school.
10. Learning about photosynthesis in plants.
