Quick Question #4

Dear John Dear,
I am a student and I really really really don't like a lot of my classes that in my mind I will never use. Why do they teach us stuff in school that we are never gonna use?

Class Clown

Dear Class Clown,

In school they have to make sure they are covering everyones (possible) needs. Just because you will never use geometry, home economics, or wood shop, doesn't mean that someone else would. In addition I don't know a single person that hasn't considered changing their career at some point in their life. Just because you think your set in a job path doesn't mean it's something that you will want to do for the rest of your life or even all the way through college. A whole lot of people get to college and then decide, "This isn't what I thought it would be, I'll do something else."
Not to mention I always impress people when I know the formula to calculate the volume of a circle or when I know the exact temperature to heat poached eggs at, or the difference between an adjective and an adverb.
When you get older those things that you didn't care for, won't even be a memory, which is why it's impressive to recall those things a matter of a decade out of school.
Of course it's also a matter of time management, if they keep you busy eight hours a day then you are relatively out of trouble for those hours; and it prepares you for working an eight hour day when you start to work.
Although there is no reason at all to learn about how a bill becomes a law. School House Rock did it and it will forever be burned into all our minds.

Remember I before E and you add a P and that equals PIE!

John Dear