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The most useless school subjects are named: a list
I’ll make a reservation right away, this is my personal opinion as an ex-schoolgirl and a mother. Let it be subjective, but reasonable. It’s just a shame to watch how children and teachers spend a lot of energy, time and nerves on unnecessary lessons.
The school curriculum is such a thing about which more than one hundred copies have been broken. And it seems that every year it is changed, long-suffering: one will be added, then the other will be removed. They juggle astronomy, or dances with a tambourine around the lessons of Orthodoxy. What do we want from school at all? To give a person knowledge that will be useful to him in life? Basics of Comprehensive Development? Interested in further study of the subject?
I remember my own studies. I know what my own daughter is being taught now. And I have my own ranking of the most useless school subjects.
1. OBZH – the basics of life safety
This is an absolute hit. What is just the decoding of the abbreviation! She herself is dissonant. And in long form, it is some kind of stillborn set of words. The basics of life safety, if you think about it, are taught to the child by the parents. Do not go into boiling water, do not grab a hot stove, pass the knife correctly and cross the road. And at school? We had this subject led by a former military man who enthusiastically told how to behave during a nuclear explosion. Yes, do not behave in any way, you will die anyway. And me too. And I, like a real hipster in headphones, will die without even realizing what happened. And knowing how to put on a gas mask correctly won’t help me in the least.
No, knowledge of how to pump out a drowning person, how to flush pepper gas from his face or bandage his hands and feet is certainly needed – you never know what. But the military ranks memorized by heart (!) Or the practice of writing essays on the topic “The Ideal Soldier” is unlikely. Meanwhile, the rules for first aid are given extremely dryly, confining themselves to instructions such as “In any incomprehensible situation, apply ice and call an ambulance.” No practice, of course. And writing an essay on life safety is a waste of time.
Than to replace: first aid classes, how to recognize a stroke, how to act in emergency situations (lost, for example). And it would be nice to explain to what kind of help a person who finds himself in such a situation is entitled – from the police, from doctors and officials.
2. Labor education / Technology
In the form in which it exists now, it is an anachronism. For example, I was taught to embroider. Guys, seriously? Embroidery can become a hobby. But to devote school time to this? Of course, the basics of cooking or sewing will come in handy. True, it is hardly worth sewing an apron or a skirt at school. All the same in life it will be done by a few. “It would be better if they taught me how to darn socks. Or put patches on jeans, ”I grumbled, drawing out a machine line by hand with a needle. What for?! Why do I need these skills? However, I don’t darn socks either, I send them to the trash. And my daughter was taught to sew on a manual sewing machine. Apparently, in case it falls into the Stone Age and the electricity is canceled.
What about studying kitchen design? As soon as it comes to my own kitchen, I will be my own designer and not a single school textbook is an order for me. Moreover, these manuals are outdated faster than they are published.
Boys are taught to grind, saw and plan. No, not bad, of course. Although I have not seen a single adult man who enthusiastically knocks up stools. No, I’m lying. I saw one. He makes a living with it. In general, a stool is much easier to buy than to make. Of course, I welcome the ability to hold a hammer. But a milling machine is unlikely to appear in my family nest.
Than to replace: why not teach girls a style lesson since we decided to raise a lady? Appropriateness of makeup, compatibility of colors and elements of clothing are better than embroidery. Manicure, maybe even the basics of hairdressing. Again, it would be useful for career guidance.
And the boys? You know, for sure every woman has a dream so that her man can fix a faucet or a sink. Do you know a lot of men who know at least something about the construction of the sink before you asked for something to be fixed there? And one more, in my opinion, a useful skill: to understand cars. Change the wheel, screw the terminal on the battery. Know how the hood opens.
And certainly neither the one nor the other would not be in the way of driving lessons. At least at the stand, at least the beginning, the basics. Personally, I would trade any hoops for driving practice.
Don’t rush to throw your slippers at me. I am not calling for giving up activity. But there are nuances. In most schools, physical education is taught well, just poorly. And in general they do not count as a lesson. On the one hand, not every school has the opportunity to teach swimming, for example, or skating. And there is no opportunity to take a shower either. And it sucks.
On the other … I don’t even know. Maybe a tradition? After all, for the last 30 years, physical training lessons have looked the same: for most of the quarter we are fooling around, playing volleyball, getting into a circle, or chatting. And three or four lessons out of the whole quarter we pass the standards like crazy. Despite the fact that the majority can neither correctly push up, nor sit down, nor pull up. Maybe you learned the rules of playing the same volleyball or basketball? Nope. What did you do for so many years in physical education? Unclear.
But we wrote essays. About the same basketball. This is how couch fans grow up.
And also my, personally my physical education teacher was so mediocre that he entrusted the relay races to the most active students from my own class. They invented the stages themselves, carried out them themselves. At the same time, we felt incredibly cool. For me, the relay races ended when I broke my arm right in the lesson. After this incident, one kind of gym scared me to the point of hiccups. And my own look frightened the teacher to a hiccup.
Than to replace: self-defense basics and choreography. It will be useful to both. And also – at least some theory of a healthy lifestyle: nutrition, metabolism, and other fundamentals of fitness.
Interview
What do you think about modern education?
Soviet was ideal – everything was in its place, and they taught with high quality.
Let’s take an example from the West and let the children choose which items they need.
I won’t send my child to school at all – I prefer family education.
Everything suits me, those who complain are just lazy. Or they rage with fat.
The education system has really lagged behind modern life.