Futile Teaching
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We've all had a teacher who gave a test with many questions
About information that we haven't learned in any of our lessons
Sometimes they may ask a question about the constitution
But you've studied for a quiz on World War II
Or who was the commander of the Continental Army during the American Revolution?
What are we to do?
If you had taken science in the ninth grade
Which was three years ago, a distant memory
Perhaps about vacations or the games you've played
How are you supposed to remember the Law of The Conservation of Energy?
The most common question throughout generations is
How will this help me later in life
Maybe I could use y=mx+b to figure out the ages of my kids
And multiply it by nine to find the age of my wife..
It seems like we learn many unnecessary things without any reason
But somehow, most of us make it to graduation
When we forget three fourths of what we learned in one season
What is to come of our poor nation?