From School to the Real World

Many of you have thought it, many of you have even said it to other people, I know I have said it. What I’m talking about is when you go to class like Calculus or algebra maybe even history and you think why am I learning this? I’ll never use this in everyday life. Well you might be right. In every educational institution there are prerequisites before you graduate or move on there is this course or that course you have to take and you move on and find out that what you learned was completely useless. It’s even worse if you struggled in whatever it was. That is how our school systems work you have to take the standardized test for this and that to get further but those won’t help you in real life situations. How everything was set up in grade school is you learn a balance of every subject before you get into what you do for the rest of your life. It’s not a bad thing but there is such a heavy emphasis on these tests when it only provides basic knowledge to something that needs more attention in one area than another. Like a English major learning advanced calculus, there’s no point in it their job requires more attention to English and what’s the point or learning something you will never use.