What was the most valuable thing you learned in school?

[RepresentingCaution]

When I say school, I'm including everything from elementary school through university.

I know I've talked a lot about being a mom, and some of you may be tired of hearing about it, but if you have any interest in being parents yourselves, I highly recommend taking a human development course through the psychology department of a university. I minored in psychology, and I didn't really know what I was getting into when I chose that course to fulfill one of my requirements, but it turned out to be the most valuable course I've ever taken in more ways than one.

First of all, our professor showed "The Business of Being Born" to the class, and that information saved me from an emergency C-section. I've got more details here if you want to read about it:

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Why was that so important? About a third of births in America are done by C-section, but only about 10% of births require a C-section. C-section births not only require a longer hospital stay, but they can also lead to long-term problems for people delivered by C-section. Of course, it's not a death sentence but a likelihood, and there may be ways to prevent those problems, but it's something that requires further research:

Another, perhaps even more important, thing I learned from my human development course was not to let the literature the hospital gave me scare me away from cosleeping. We got a free hand-me-down crib, and we tried to make it work, but our son didn't tolerate it. While some kids (apparently I was one of them) will sleep in a crib without fuss, many won't. There are safe ways to cosleep, but I think hospitals just tell parents that cosleeping is "never" safe to avoid liability. Unfortunately, this sets parents up for sleep deprivation, and sleep-deprived parents are likely to accidentally fall asleep with their babies in positions that are unsafe, especially if they've never had access to information about safe cosleeping. Personally, when we were trying to make the crib work and I was running around in a sleep-deprived state, I became more afraid of dropping my son than anything else. Before it was too late, I dug up some articles supporting what I had learned in my human development course, showed them to my husband, and we all slept better after that:

What Every Health Professional Should Know // Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory // University of Notre Dame

Professor James J. McKenna’s Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory at Notre Dame studies how sleeping and co-sleeping environments affect mothers, breastfeeding, and infants’ physiological and psychological well-being and development.

cosleeping.nd.edu

How Cosleeping Can Help You and Your Baby

The decision whether to cosleep with your baby is extremely controversial—and there are two sides to the story.

greatergood.berkeley.edu

What things have you learned in school that made a positive impact on your life?

 

[RaizarP]

The thing that I learned at school and made a positive impact on my life is sleeping.
They teach me that sleep is important, so I always sleep in the class.

 

[PeacefulMyst]

Apart from judging the 200 dates in history, I guess... English?

 

[RepresentingCaution]

The thing that I learned at school and made a positive impact on my life is sleeping.
They teach me that sleep is important, so I always sleep in the class.

I hear you can sleep even better at home in a bed.

 

[Duong_Trong]

School taught me all about how teamwork makes the dreamwork and how being a selfish and uncaring jerk actually goes a long way in life. Of course, both weren't taught by the school :))))
What's this? Oh my goodness, i dropped the link to my "novel" ;)))

 

[RepresentingWrath]

English.

 

[PeacefulMyst]

Oh one more thing, That ill be flipping burgers on the streets

 

[Deleted member 54065]

That school may seem to be normal on the outside, but it can be rotten to the core inside.

And take note, I'm already a teacher by the time I learned this.

 

[Reborn_Cat]

That student relationships are a pain in the *ss

 

[Deleted member 19066]

What things have you learned in school that made a positive impact on your life?

I learned what it means to be an adult.

 

[MyukiMruieast]

Things in life don't develop smooth and easy. Like a math book that moved me into pride, but only to have that arrogance destroyed upon entering the second step of life. And, In life, there's two vain. One that is worth, and one that is worthless.
And the positive thing I've learned in school is that… Do what you like.

 

[BearlyAlive]

The only thing I learned in school is that you don't learn the important things in school.

Outside of that, math taught me that all farmers are racist and all math people are weird.

 

[Ilikewaterkusa]

When I say school, I'm including everything from elementary school through university.

I know I've talked a lot about being a mom, and some of you may be tired of hearing about it, but if you have any interest in being parents yourselves, I highly recommend taking a human development course through the psychology department of a university. I minored in psychology, and I didn't really know what I was getting into when I chose that course to fulfill one of my requirements, but it turned out to be the most valuable course I've ever taken in more ways than one.

First of all, our professor showed "The Business of Being Born" to the class, and that information saved me from an emergency C-section. I've got more details here if you want to read about it:

Writing - [Tutorial] Writing Erotic HORROR

?Happy Halloween, my Delicious Friends!? Writing Erotic HORROR Tossing a random sex scene into a Horror story will not give you an Erotic Horror story. All that does is make a Horror story with erotic bits. To write a true Erotic Horror, both Death and Sex must carry equal weight in the plot...

forum.scribblehub.com

Why was that so important? About a third of births in America are done by C-section, but only about 10% of births require a C-section. C-section births not only require a longer hospital stay, but they can also lead to long-term problems for people delivered by C-section. Of course, it's not a death sentence but a likelihood, and there may be ways to prevent those problems, but it's something that requires further research:

Another, perhaps even more important, thing I learned from my human development course was not to let the literature the hospital gave me scare me away from cosleeping. We got a free hand-me-down crib, and we tried to make it work, but our son didn't tolerate it. While some kids (apparently I was one of them) will sleep in a crib without fuss, many won't. There are safe ways to cosleep, but I think hospitals just tell parents that cosleeping is "never" safe to avoid liability. Unfortunately, this sets parents up for sleep deprivation, and sleep-deprived parents are likely to accidentally fall asleep with their babies in positions that are unsafe, especially if they've never had access to information about safe cosleeping. Personally, when we were trying to make the crib work and I was running around in a sleep-deprived state, I became more afraid of dropping my son than anything else. Before it was too late, I dug up some articles supporting what I had learned in my human development course, showed them to my husband, and we all slept better after that:

What Every Health Professional Should Know // Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory // University of Notre Dame

Professor James J. McKenna’s Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory at Notre Dame studies how sleeping and co-sleeping environments affect mothers, breastfeeding, and infants’ physiological and psychological well-being and development.

cosleeping.nd.edu

How Cosleeping Can Help You and Your Baby

The decision whether to cosleep with your baby is extremely controversial—and there are two sides to the story.

greatergood.berkeley.edu

What things have you learned in school that made a positive impact on your life?

That’s it’s all a scam, and regime propaganda

 

[Ymadthepirate]

everyone is a jerk and likes bothering you

 

[ConansWitchBaby]

People are much weaker than they appear to be. And that everything can be broken down into very basic components.

 

[AliceShiki]

Mostly how history research works and about how things in history are mostly theories... Facts are few and far between.

Oh, and there was one thing a teacher told me one time that I remember to this day... "No job is perfect. They all have their good parts and the bad parts... When you choose your profession, you have to accept that you won't do just the good parts, but also the bad ones."

This was what he told me when I asked him like... "Well, I was thinking of being a teacher in the future, but uhn... How do you deal with the whole thing of needing to grade a bunch of tests and whatnot?"

I'm not really a teacher nowadays as I dropped out of uni, but his advice still helps me~

 

[Irl_Rat]

I learned that asking out a girl is surprisingly simple. Just walk up to someone, at least mildly familiar unless you're a visual knockout, and ask her if she wants to go on a date.

So far I haven't been reported to the authorities. But that's probably because I haven't talked about why American Psycho is one of my favorite movies.

 

[KiraMinoru]

The most valuable thing learned in school is what they don’t explicitly tell you that you have to figure out on your own. To increase your chances of success means understanding the art of making connections with the right people as well as how to lie/cheat resourcefully without being caught. The latter two being ones they tell you not to do, but that itself is just a lie. Just look at politicians, they’re the perfect embodiment of those two untaught lessons.

 

[Deleted member 57675]

School is only a the tip of an iceberg in learning. If you want learn, you got to find opportunities outside of it to learn cause sometimes school doesn't teach much.

Like history? Many places obscure facts they don't want talk about. Use the internet to dig up more historical facts and events.

Like comp sci? You probably need to branch out and do actual projects to help you learn and explore. Classes don't do much.

There's the textbook and then there's the actual real life skills learning. Classes also don't really teach you how to file your taxes, managing your personal finances, reading and understanding legal terms as much, unless its a specific part of a major (like maybe part accounting/lawyer?). What you get is having to rack up GE - while some of it is nice to know, is it useful in putting bread on the table after graduating? It would be a whole lot more boring, but those are important. But that is something you have to figure out yourself.

School has also taught me that at least in college, people like to dramatize and overreact a bit. Sometimes it seems like a minor thing or a nuisance but not necessarily needing that level of hate and anger towards it. Unless its truly that bad. People only glance at you a few times and will make a judgment out of you, despite not knowing all the angles that make up you. Some want good customer service but are horrible customers themselves.

Mistakes cannot be erased so easily. You can't just waltz through school without planning and self evaluation. If you went through the wrong major and now can't find a job? Well tough luck, buddy. You graduated without an internship, no projects, no connections, and have no luck in the job market? Tough luck, buddy. Its hard looking at this latter one, cause many people are good academically. But the jobs want skills and experience. But we apply jobs to get the skills in the first place.

You need be your own person and think. Cause starting from day 1, if you don't, you're already at a loss. You got to pick yourself up and not rely on others for help. Help is nice, when it comes. You need have a backup, one that is soluble.

School teaches what it doesn't teach. Planning, doing, managing your own life.

 

[T.K._Paradox]

Metalworking, English, history, and why I should find my own credible sources for research.