Which subject would you kill off?

Replace RS/RE with Philosophy classes. Interest them with genuine philosophical issues, encourage discussion and free thought. Would make a nice change from the mundane nature of most classes.

Skepticism, problem of induction, epistemology, identity, dualism are all genuinely interesting topics which are sadly missing until uni level study. Shameful really.

Pfffffffft philosophy. MORE MATHS AND SCIENCE!!!!

Wouldn't you be interested in studying why the entire basis of science, and indeed all human knowledge of the world, might be fallacious...?

No, I'm not interested in your piece of **** you call philosophy. Philosophers have never done anything useful, all they do is ask stupid questions over and over again without trying finding an answer.

Religious Studies for obvious reasons.

(Religion is horse****).

Bertrand Russell? He was a philosopher and also did some amazing work on maths, including some things that changed the way we think about things now (set theory, Principia Mathematica etc.)

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You do realise that studying English can really improve your standard of writing and, in some cases, get you things you need/want. E.g if you have a high level of written communication you can raise your chances of getting further in life.

It's also interesting to study Language and Power at A level - you can see how language is used to manipulate people

Maybe, but it's not for me. I can read and write fine, but Shakespeare makes me want to bang my head against a wall

He was a Mathematician and a Philosopher, so my point still stands. Can you please explain how philosophy is useful?

He was a Mathematician and a Philosopher, so my point still stands. Can you please explain how philosophy is useful?

Plato? Aristotle? Leibniz? Hilbert? Wittgenstein? Kant? Frege (essentially the father of mathematical logic ) All studied philosophy.

What can you say about the practical use of anything out of context? Nothing is useful in absolutely any context, including philosophy. You may say maths is more useful, but can you give me an example of when you have ever used maths in real life? Most subjects are only useful in specific contexts, but if you are saying what is the most useful in general day to day life, I would have to say sociology or psychology simply because of the way they deal with people and interactions.

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I ****ing use maths and physics every single day. Programming for example. Now, please give me an example where me or you ever need to use sociology or psychology?

You may, but I would say that the general public don't really use them that much.

Psychology and sociology are much more applicable to real life since they are centered around social interactions and why/how they happen, so you could use them any time you talk to someone. Psychology could be used in business to help selling, mental health problems and many other scenarios.

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Totally agree.



There's a hell of a lot more to English than Shakespeare...

Frankly I wouldn't get rid of any subjects, different people have different skills and interests.

There's a hell of a lot more to English than Shakespeare...

Frankly I wouldn't get rid of any subjects, different people have different skills and interests.

Maths. Yes, I know it's useful but that's my opinion.