What has been the most important school subject in your adult life?

I enjoyed most subjects, to be honest (apart from PE, which I loathed with a passion!), but without a doubt my most important subject was English, because it led to my lifelong career in journalism.

Drama, had an inspirational teacher.
I played roles in plays by Brecht and Anouilh, recited excerpts from Shakespeare and enjoyed mime.
This all encouraged my creativity and confidence.

I was going to say nothing but I suppose an interest in Geography and History and I can ‘speak proper’
Don’t think I ve ever used most of the maths or science I was taught and could never manage languages
Loved and still do my art but that wasn’t owing to school I d have sketched and painted anyway

CrazyH my understand is that they have to get Maths and English nowadays

Definitely English and Latin - couldn't have had the career I've had without them. I didn't enjoy learning English grammar at the time or practising précis for hours but how useful these skills turned out to be.
I was really pleased in 2002 to meet my former English teacher and tell her how much I now appreciate all her efforts. She was a lovely woman, very far from the humourless dragon the teenage me had thought she was. Thank you, Miss Ada. I owe you.

Maths for me too but not for a logical reason because I failed to get a Grade 1 CSE (three times I achieved a Grade II which actually taught me that that was my academic level).

I accepted this and it never stopped me getting (and excelling at) any job handling money, including payroll, always balancing the books to the penny.

I’ve always concentrated on personal finance and found I was rather good at it (even on low incomes) which meant we became mortgage free at 45 and I’ve never looked back.

Don’t ever think that the subjects you’re best at will be the making of you is my take on this - sometimes where you don’t excel is where the magic happens!

English and history

English at school and Economics at technical college.

crazyH

English and Maths
My neighbour’s granddaughter has failed her Maths GCSE. From what I understand, she has to re-sit this before she does her A levels. Any teachers here ? Or I could Google it, I suppose. Her grandma is worried

She will have to do maths resits in Y12 (same if she'd mucked up her English GCSE), but it won't stop her starting her A levels. If she's thinking about uni, they expect GCSE maths & English too

Our English teacher, Miss Edwards, was brilliant. She taught us Scots as well and I particularly remember us all being invited to chose a village character to write about in the first person. I had great fun as a poacher and ne'er-do-well.....! Her excellent teaching served me well in my job as a Social Worker writing clear records and court reports.

Thanks Bluebelle and Chardy 👍

Art and poetry in my day but, sadly, these subjects seem to have been slashed from the general school curriculum. The 'heavy duty' subjects such as Maths, the Sciences and English take prominence.

But wouldn't it be a very 'grey' world if only academic stuff was taught on the premise "it makes you fit for work"!

Surely education shouldn't be restricted to subjects for churning out drones?

English, history and music.

Maths and biology - because they were well taught.

Reading most of all as it has served me very well, to educate me.

French, because I live here. Having said that, being able to quote chunks of Racine's plays wasn't much help at the beginning when I needed to say "the sink is blocked". 😂

Maths and English for everyday life,

Geography and Environmental Science have shaped my life.

The most useful subject has been Home Economics for a basic understanding of dress making and cooking.

I wish I had taken Latin - it would have been so useful in gardening, ecology and when doing the cryptic crossword,

crazyH

English and Maths
My neighbour’s granddaughter has failed her Maths GCSE. From what I understand, she has to re-sit this before she does her A levels. Any teachers here ? Or I could Google it, I suppose. Her grandma is worried

If her parents can afford it they might consider a tutor. Although our DSs were good at Maths, we had a tutor for one of them just to make sure he passed, as we were not very confident in his class teacher’s abilities.

English and Music, which were also the two ‘A’ levels in which I achieved passes.

English from Miss Outhwaite. I’m so pleased I learned English grammar, as that is helping me grapple with Spanish grammar now.

English, Latin and French.
But Music outside the classroom instilled a love of singing.

windmill1

Art and poetry in my day but, sadly, these subjects seem to have been slashed from the general school curriculum. The 'heavy duty' subjects such as Maths, the Sciences and English take prominence.

But wouldn't it be a very 'grey' world if only academic stuff was taught on the premise "it makes you fit for work"!

Surely education shouldn't be restricted to subjects for churning out drones?

Oh that's sad, I loved art and poetry. It was my escape

English language (I was a professional writer and editor). History, still my passion today.

Keats English Interpretation Geometry

Francis Bacon's essay 'On Truth' as it started my love of philosophy

English and typing

I cannot think of any subject I studied at school that has not been useful since.

I always say that the most useful subject I had for childrearing was O level latin. DS went through a phase of wanting to know why every word was what it was and my ability to tell him that people walking along the street were called pedestrians derived from the latin word 'pedes' - a foot, to name but one, was really useful. At one point I found myself wishing I had studied ancient Greek in order to deal with all those cameras, cinemas and hippopotomases.