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Three years of Latin in high school. It taught me a lot of vocabulary that helps me to figure out word meanings to this day. It taught me the structure of language and, for the first time, I understood how the English language works. It laid the basis for any future language I ever learned. Although I know it's not practical these days, it was by far the most helpful class I ever had.
Already mentioned in this thread but I would go with Typewriting & Algebra (in high school)
In college (excluding my major) macro + micro economics, business information systems, public speaking, quantitative analysis, business law.
Three years of Latin in high school. It taught me a lot of vocabulary that helps me to figure out word meanings to this day. It taught me the structure of language and, for the first time, I understood how the English language works. It laid the basis for any future language I ever learned. Although I know it's not practical these days, it was by far the most helpful class I ever had.
Latin is extraordinarily helpful in learning languages and the basis of English grammar, in general. It's a good knowledge base for understanding and learning a variety of languages.
Interesting, I got it junior year back around the age of Aquarius. One of the biggest things I learned from it was how to set up and solve problems/answer questions. Been working on one this week. Purely management problem. But the techniques to research records and data and figuring out what questions to ask are the same. All the data is there, but our systems are not set up to reach across databases to produce consolidated results. Even though it's "electronic", it's set up and runs like a paper file system. Each with it's own guardian who you have to get the data from. I'd so love to do my own queries and be able to run R instead of cutting and pasting Word documents into a crippled version of Excel. Sorry for the vent. Just spent all day getting two files to talk to one another.
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One of the biggest things I learned from it was how to set up and solve problems/answer questions. Been working on one this week. Purely management problem. But the techniques to research records and data and figuring out what questions to ask are the same. All the data is there, but our systems are not set up to reach across databases to produce consolidated results. Even though it's "electronic", it's set up and runs like a paper file system. 
Each with it's own guardian who you have to get the data from. 
I'd so love to do my own queries and be able to run R instead of cutting and pasting Word documents into a crippled version of Excel. Sorry for the vent. Just spent all day getting two files to talk to one another.
