left school learnt nothing

[Andy008]

I left school 6 years ago, and have since done fairly well for myself. However, aside from reading and writing I left school feeling that I left absolutely nothing, and I'd be hard pressed now to name any single useful thing that school taught me. Why is this?

[Chillum]

It was all there if you wanted it. There's absolutely no difference between learning in school as there is to learning once you leave school. The difference is in the age at which you realise that you'd bettter start paying attention.

[elleroo]

maybe bad attitude at a young age prevented you from learning to appreciate the things they were trying to teach you. i think thats the problem with children, they only appreciate their education when its too late. maybe if you had paid more attention then you may have learnt something of some value, of course this is just hindsight. if we knew now what would happen in or future we would work a lot harder to better ourselves im sure. but dont worry about the past and what you didnt learn, its the here and now that matters. put effort and time into learning the things you're interested in and make the best of what you can. :-)

[Scarlett]

I think you probably learned more than you realise. You may not remember specific lessons, but you are an educated person now, and that will be due to your schooling - academically and socially.

[kazza12345]

i quite often wonder why i cant work out whether 12 budwieser bottles 330mls for 12 pounds is better value than 20 at 220 mls for 10 pounds, when at school i could triangulate, do quadratic equasions etc etc

I think school probably gave you a social education.  I actually cant recall individual lessons at school now, but remember things i learnt at uni and on the job - maybe because they were more important to me?

[Andy008]

I don't think school did give me a social education as I left with very little self confidence. I didn't learn anything useful in lessons either apart from English, so i'm still at a loss to really understand what the whole point of it was.

[BondGirl]

At the end of the day, you've had the drive and determination to get where you are - life experience can be more valuble than any university qualification.  Afterall, how many self-made millionaires out there actually went to Uni - very few I suspect, they just had a good idea, put in the hard graft and made it.  Well done to you Andy!

[funkychicken]

maybe it was because none of the things they taught you interested you. I know none of the things they taught me at school were of any interest whatsoever, in most lessons I wanted to stab myself to see if it would make it more interesting........