Quote Originally Posted by Limited View Post
Completely agree, your only learning to pass the stupid tests, not learning anything actually useful.

Out of all the things I've learnt at school, I've probably only needed about 5% of it, minus the obvious reading/writing that you learn really young.

If you were to ask me what K is in the periodic table, all I remember is I think its one of the ones that tricks to trick you, just like lead (I think is PB or something close)

They need to make education more relative to life.
school teaches you how to solve problems. that there are many ways to solve many different situations. it teaches you to apply whats learned in class (examples) to real life problems that you will be paid to solve.
perhaps your teachers don't do a good enough job or you are just too stupid to realize that.