What Our Children Should Definitely Start Learning

I was taught algebra in school (only in a manner of speaking because I could fathom little of it) and later found zero application for it in my life. The same goes for the geometry theorems I had to do and the chemistry symbols I had to try (and failed) to mug up. So clearly I spent a lot of time in school learning things that were useless to me later in life. Now how could my time have been better utilised in school? Perhaps some understanding about the practical world and things would have made much more sense.

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