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

English, shorthand and typing.

mabon2

English and Latin

Mrs Angus taught us Latin songs I hope you like the following. I bet everyone can guess the English translation!

O divina Clementina

O meae Deliciae

Periisti

Occidisti

Indi meae lachrimae

Mojack26

I was a teacher.. PE was my own subject but also involved in Learning Support and Guidance. My fave subjects at school were Geography and History along with PE then English but the most useful subject I was taught was......Latin! It has come in useful my whole life....

Of course it would ! Mens sana in corpore sano is forever true.

annodomini

I was always 'good at English'. I suppose it was written in the stars that I would take it as a degree and end up teaching it. However, other languages also influenced me. I enjoyed learning Latin and Greek - both very handy for crosswords.

Dear Brutus ,your fate was with yourself not your stars

Maremia

This is going to be an in interesting thread.
History/geography.

They go together, don't they, the story of man's past and the locus of man's present. Do you like Horrible Histories?

kittylester

None. I have been a SAHM but 'domestic science' did not equip me for anything apart from how lay a table with all the cutlery pointing in the same direction.

I love that scene in Ghost where the friendly hotel manager shows her what cutlery to use at a posh restaurant!

Bixiboo

German

Was ist das ?

Nicht "German" aber "Deutch"

Caleo

annodomini

I was always 'good at English'. I suppose it was written in the stars that I would take it as a degree and end up teaching it. However, other languages also influenced me. I enjoyed learning Latin and Greek - both very handy for crosswords.

Dear Brutus ,your fate was with yourself not your stars

I learnt Latin but not Greek.

My brother learnt Greek, he tried to teach me some simple phrases but as I was only about 7 at the time he was taking his GCEs not much went in, but I did learn the Greek alphabet.

I not sure how useful it has been.

Follow retirement, I worked for a few years as an invigilator at a secondary school.
The art department was a wonderful place and the different kinds of pupil's artwork was inspiring.
Art and music are alive and well in many primary and secondary schools, I am happy to report.

The times tables are probably the only thing I learnt
at school that I still use every day, sometimes several times a day. Latin has also proved very useful at understanding different languages.

That reminded me that did read tales of Greek and Roman Gods and heroes in the first year at High School which I enjoyed and read about them for years afterwards.
That wasn't a lot of use in my future career either, but enjoyable.

Languages. I’ve always read voraciously and now that I’m retired, get through two novels a week. Wish I’d taken more interest in science though, especially biology.

Latin French and History

Caleo

Bixiboo

German

Was ist das ?

Nicht "German" aber "Deutch"

Nicht Deutch sondern Deutsch

RosieandherMaw

Caleo

Bixiboo

German

Was ist das ?

Nicht "German" aber "Deutch"

Nicht Deutch sondern Deutsch

[smile[
Danke!

Music without a doubt.

O level cookery!

English and Latin, but in addition we had a year of Gardening, which, before the internet and modern TV programs proved very useful.

As a retired academic looking back..... I went to a very unambitious girls school where the aim was to keep us away from boys and prepare us for marriage to local farmers sons. None of us did GCSEs or even CSEs. I left at 15 and got a job and started evening classes in the academic subjects I'd missed. I must say there was one teacher who tried to get us to think for ourselves and she was probably the main influence for my future career (she was sacked unfortunately, I imagine for being unqualified and unorthodox). In terms of a subject, I have to admit I'm pleased I can cook and sew and domestic science, despite not being aimed at qualifications, has been the most useful subject I learnt at school.

Same here. I've always been in choirs and now playing recorder again with U3A. It has given me so much pleasure through the years

I would have to say history. So much of what I was taught as a child turned out not to be true. I remember being so shocked at how awful Christopher Columbus was. So many examples like that.

I went to 14 different schools ( parents moved around a lot) and it was reading that was thing which was most consistent between schools. I ended up teaching it for 34 years!

But I found all subjects interesting. My reading came in useful as, while others were making friends and having fun, I had my nose in a book and had prizes for coming top in various subject exams:- Geography, Biology, English and, at one school where I arrived just in time for the exams - everything except History as it was a period I hadn’t studied.

I often wondered how I would have done if I had gone to one, very good school and been allowed to work and study without disruption. I ensured my own children had this opportunity and they did extremely well.

We all love English, History. Politics and cooking!

Human Biology, Geography and English

I’ve been a nurse for 50 years, have worked in travel medicine for 20 of those years and love travelling myself and I m an avid bookworm 🤷‍♀️ so Human Biology, Geography and English have played an enormous part in my life

French, because if you have experienced French grammer Italian and Spanish are then easy, (we didnt have latin) Also I found it very useful travelling in Morocco, Syria and Lebanon.

I also did typing and bookkeeping in school which I have found useful as I am not just a two fingered typist and can keep the accounts for my business.

English literature because it developed my love of reading.