How much of your education have you retained?

[Zelpha]

Originally Posted by OpinionInOcala

The problem with the word you've cited (and chiefly among the reasons it is no longer used) is because it has no practical, contemporary application for us as we do not have an official state-sponsored religion.

Also, in the broader sense, the word is not a double negative:

• Antiestablishment = Against the establishment.
• Antidisestablishment = Against doing away with the establishment.

• Add an "ism" to either and you define a specific doctrine favoring a particular cause that is currently (or at the very least unofficially pervasive) in practice.

Exactly. And people don't ever USE the word in any context. People just use the word as a joke.

[psikeyhackr]

Originally Posted by Zelpha

Exactly. And people don't ever USE the word in any context. People just use the word as a joke.

Yes, I made a game of how fast I could spell it. That is why I remember it.

It helped convince me that my teachers were stupid.

But it was a Catholic school and why they considered the word important.

psik

[Rubi3]

I have no clue how much or how little I've retained from going to school, which includes a masters degree, plus 30 more hours here and there. Anything having to do with algebra disappeared as soon as I no longer needed it because I didn't want remnants of it cluttering my brain. lol

[villageidiot1]

Originally Posted by Zelpha

So are you saying that you've retained every fact you've ever read in your history textbooks from grade school on?

Please be honest.

I have a strong interest in history and can easily say I learn more history every year that I'm alive.

In fact, my wife tells me I'm full of useless trivia.

[texdav]

I agree; my education was just a basis to continue learning the lessons of life.

[brianNYC92]

I don't remember things like chemistry and history....

[pkbab5]

I have not retained specific facts that I learned. Almost every fact I learned in history class is useless to me now as an engineer. However there is a skill that I learned in history class and every other class that I now use daily. This skill is "how to quickly learn lots of facts that I may or may not have any interest in, and be able to correlate those facts with other facts, analyze them, solve problems concerning them, and report the results." Which pretty much sums up my entire professional career.

That skill can only be learned by practicing it over and over, and if you practice it in school, then you have a giant leg up when you enter the workforce. You can always tell the newbie engineers who have no idea how to do this because they slept through history class.

[saibot]

I was a good student all the way up through university. I enjoyed school, and I enjoyed learning. However, I have found that certain subjects have almost disappeared from my brain while others remain crystal clear. I don't think it's the way they were taught or the fact that I use or don't use them. It's just the way my mind works.

I loved chemistry, but apart from a few very simple basics, it's all gone. I recently ran across some of my high school chemistry papers and I had absolutely no recollection of what was going on in these formulas or how I was able to solve the equations and get an A.

I disliked algebra, but remember most of it. When my daughter took algebra, I was able to step right in and help her when she needed it. On the other hand, I liked geometry and trigonometry, but most of it is gone.

Details of history are mostly gone, but I have a fair grasp of the overall chronology of the past few hundred years in major Western countries.

The foreign languages I learned (Spanish, German, and Japanese) are still there in detail, and English is all still there. I can diagram sentences; I'm an excellent speller; I remember all those abstruse grammar and punctuation rules.

My dad is 91 and still remembers mathematics and chemistry from his college days in great detail. He can't recall much if any Spanish or German. That's the way HIS mind works.

[Dirt Grinder]

I retained my High-School diploma.