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[Golden Thread] What's the most useful thing you learnt at school?

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I could never do the practical element of electricity in GCSE, and I used to get extremely stressed. My set would never work no matter how many wires I used, and it really broke me down over time. It would start to affect how I felt about my work in all subjects too. My notes were messy, my handwriting looked more like it was out of a cartoon than an exercise book and my books always looked just awful. Don't get me wrong, I didn't deliberately leave books messy, I tried my absolute best to make it look perfect and it never, never was.
One day, my physics teacher saw I was struggling, but not just me. There were people with with wonderful books that wouldn't even touch a page during a lesson. They had exactly the opposite issue to me, they feared they would ruin their notes so refused to try at all. My teacher stopped the entire lesson and started to ask us why we were so stressed. It blew me away when everyone in the class put their hand up that they struggled with this, and they said to us one thing that always stuck with me: Be brave, not perfect.
That is the lesson that has been most useful to me :h:

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parmezanne

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taught me how to have work ethic - i needed exams to learn that.

it also taught me how to socialise etc.!

Reply 62

username3450884

That rules can be manipulated or twisted to quite an extent without ever being broken.

This knowledge has served me well in life. I can say with all honesty that I never break rules - but that doesn't mean I am sticking to them :colone:

Reply 63

_Mia101

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well, i've learnt things while at school (not necessarily from school): grades don't define you and that you should enjoy things while you can... nothing lasts forever

Reply 64

Noodlzzz

That I wasn't normal :frown:

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username1339858_

Original post by Noodlzzz

That I wasn't normal :frown:

That is a normal realisation for us all ... which means no one is normal, which means our realisation is incorrect, which means we are all normal

Reply 66

Noodlzzz

Yes, but I was super not normal :wink:

But I agree I think we 'find ourselves' at school and forge out who we are as people, be that what we call normal or not

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username1339858_

Original post by Noodlzzz

Yes, but I was super not normal :wink:

But I agree I think we 'find ourselves' at school and forge out who we are as people, be that what we call normal or not

I also place myself in the not normal category... but I really am not normal so

Reply 68

CoolCavy

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My art teacher was pretty useless but she did say one useful thing which is when drawing from a reference draw what you actually see not what you think you should see :smile:

Reply 69

Muserock

The NATO phonetic alphabet. It comes in very handy when people ask me to spell my name or for my car registration. :biggrin:

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username1339858_

Original post by Muserock

The NATO phonetic alphabet. It comes in very handy when people ask me to spell my name or for my car registration. :biggrin:

You learnt that in school? Lucky you, that was something I went away and learnt myself.

Reply 71

Muserock

I had a teacher who previously worked in marketing and was used to people saying "Q for cucumber". :rolleyes:

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username1339858_

Original post by Muserock

I had a teacher who previously worked in marketing and was used to people saying "Q for cucumber". :rolleyes:

Lmaoo

Reply 73

NathanAtro3

That it's a waste of time

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username5322502

I would probably say school's taught me to appreciate academics (free education which many people aren't entitled to in poorer parts of the world) and free toast/milk when they were offered at primary school cuz over here jacket potatoes be costing £££+ :h:

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Emma:-)

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The most useful thing I learnt would be how to use word, excel and PowerPoint.

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Noodlzzz

Original post by Emma:-)

The most useful thing I learnt would be how to use word, excel and PowerPoint.

How old were you? Those are pretty easy things to master...

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flaurie

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Social skills, and learning how to wire a plug in physics was useful :smile:

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Emma:-)

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Original post by Noodlzzz

How old were you? Those are pretty easy things to master...

I was quite young.
To be fair, not much else sprung to mind really. I bet I learnt a lot, but at this moment in time I can't think what.

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Original post by NathanAtro3

That it's a waste of time

I agree with this but only for secondary school. In primary I actually learnt things, my particular primary school did a good job of catering for the weak students, average ones and the brighter ones.

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