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Originally Posted by RobinMask
It's entirely possible that he may not have done. I - for example - never was taught cooking or using tools, such lessons didn't start until Year 7 (age 11-12), and then it was entirely theoretically knowledge, I believe I only ever cooked two things: a fruit salad and a cheese sandwich, which as you can imagine one doesn't exactly need a class on to know how to do such simple meals. Then from ages 14-15 it's an optional course. So we learnt exactly three years or theoretically cooking skills :P
Personally I agree with some of the other posters, schools need to teach things more practical to everyday life, a lot of the time the skills we learnt were things easily forgotten or not applicable to life. I for one have never used a quadratic equation outside of lessons, but things such as cooking would would have been a lot more useful to have learnt! Then again, I suppose it's not entirely up to the schools, but to parents as well.
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I think the opposite. You don't need to take a class to be taught how to make a fruit salad or a cheese sandwich.
Maybe you missed what I wrote above, but you do not learn quadratic equations just so you can use quadratic equations, but rather you learn such things to train your mind HOW to understand things like quadratic equations.
Just as you don't lift weights in order to be able to lift weights. Lifting weights is training to be able lift other heavy objects. Learning seemingly useless math formulas is training for other mind challenging work.