What was the subject you learnt at school that you never had to use in life?

I learned the sine and cosine rules off by heart for my Higher Maths, never used them again!
I jsut couldn't see the point of trigonometry, as I was planning to study languages.
Our trigonometry class was a double period on a Friday afternoon and our male maths teacher was very, very scary, put me off maths for life!!

I didn't have much of an education.
Our school didn't even have an exam structure. Just a simple test at the end of the year, probably to make sure you could write your name.

I was in an A-stream and near the top of most subjects because then as now, I loved learning but suffered from dyscalculia - unheard of in those days.

In fact I was middle aged before I even heard the expression. All that punishment for something I couldn't help.

Not that it mattered very much, our maths lessons never went beyond long division and multiplication - something I still cannot do.

So maths is just about the only thing I haven't used and although I could get round it a bit by drawing pictures (for instance I can recognise the 5 spot of a die as 5) that's really the only way I have even been able to use a calculator.

My parents used to say 'You'll never get anywhere if you can't do maths. ' poor souls.

My Dad didn't live to see what huge successes I achieved without it but Mum did and I think she might have been a bit proud of me.

Logarithms certainly. What were they all about? Also think the history we studied wasn’t very interesting, I think in the early 60’s WW2 would have had more relevance.
More emphasis on current affairs, politics and the world around us would have been useful. I look back and think how ignorant I was about so much when I left school, nowadays they learn more about life I think.

Mine is maths. Not all of it but most.
I ran a business so I had to do adding up. I’m ok with that especially if it includes £+pence.
The most useful thing I learnt was at junior School was to add up a column- 2oranges at 4d = 8d ect.
I still don’t ‘get’ algebra who cares what a equals?

However I might have needed those skills and I may have had a eureka moment so that I understood what it was all about. Perhaps the struggle had a purpose.

What were logarithms for? I understand that education is for broadening the mind but honestly it never broadened to that!

Education is for expanding the mind and enriching life. It’s not training in practical things.

I can’t say I’ve used needlework much, or gymnastics or lacrosse, but I use Latin every day, in my awareness of the roots and true meanings of English words. That added awareness applies to most subjects.

Algebra geometry Latin

Logarithm books! Shinning up a rope in the gym, trying to vault over a horse in the gym. Have never needed those skills.

Still waiting patiently to use the trigonometry that I strained my brain over.

I can't think of any. I've used all of it at some time. I still love leafing through my old exercise books. I wish we had done more geology than some of the subjects we covered in geography, and I wish we had had a wider syllabus in history with less emphasis on the Tudors and more European history, but otherwise I am happy with what I learnt, particularly in the science subjects and French.

I hated art, but even there, the basics of composition and brush techniques have given me something to help grasp what I'm looking at when in an Art Museum.