What did school teach you that proved of particular value in your adult life?

Hi, I've found the ability to use mathematics has been of great help. I have a budget I use, I can work out ratios, I can do sums without the need of a calculator and I still know my tables. Even geometry comes in handy when I need to know the circumference when I'm only supplied with the diameter. I also know how to do a balance sheet but that is more business principles than maths and I can also keep books pertaining to incoming and outgoing money in a small business. I've also been proud of my own writing and spelling skills particularly as so many don't seem to care about such things these days. Sadly, in spite of tuition and countless hours of typing here at myLot, I'm still not adept at typing. It's still a case of looking at the keyboard while I use 2 fingers.

That is a very useful tool to have being able to touch-type, I was actually taught as part of my training, it was a Youth Training Scheme and I wanted to work in the office, I took my RSA Stage 1 and got awarded a distinction. I learnt more from the few years at college than I did at school to be honest. I hated school, I was badly bullied. I remember my aunt buying me my first manual typewriter, but I was taught on an electronic one. They don't use typewriters now do they, it's all computer and word processors, shame in a way.

I loved the school I went to and the friends I made, but I can't say really say they taught me anything that has been of particular value in my adult life. The only thing, perhaps, was learning the English language, which has been of much help to me, especially when I went to live in English speaking countries. I was able then to read books in English and watch interesting programs and documentaries on television and later on the Internet. The English language has also enabled me to take part in sites such as this one, or others where one can write articles about diverse topics. As far as typing, well,I learned that by myself using my younger sister's typing book, but regret not doing the numbers bit at the end!

Like you, my typing course was one of the most valuable skills I learned and it supported me for years. Now it helps me make extra money and communicate with my friends! Also like you, my teachers in kindergarten and elementary school (as well as my mother who read to me and all us kids as soon as she knew she was carrying us) taught me to love books. I also learned non-scholastic knowledge like why people are mean, how to treat your friends and how to put a stranger at ease and make a friend feel better. My teachers taught me this through their actions, not lecturing, and through personal conversations when I sought out their counsel. Yes, teachers used to talk to children and try to help them instead of calling in government grief counselors or psychologists! I'm so grateful I went to school when I did and had such great teachers who truly loved their jobs and went way beyond their job descriptions.

I guess I'd have to think about it for a minute. Grade school taught me to share and play nice with others and to have respect for authority, i.g. teachers, principals. Jr. High taught me about competition, fair and unfair, I also learned how to type. It allowed me to have summer jobs working in an office instead of mowing yards and sweating my butt off because I endured the jeers of my friends, who is laughing now? High school taught me that grades really do matter and that the world I thought I knew was way different from what I'd seen.

I'm pretty much the same way. My great love was and still is science. Because of my love for science, chemistry and biology I became a nurse. I also took 4 years of office practice in high school. I also learned to touch type in the 9th grade. In college my typing doped was between 60 and 70 wpm.

My junior don't have much influence in my life, its my elemetary days that has, i have to walk kilometers to reach our school, for almost 6 years, its though, there i learned the virtue of patience and sacrifice. And also the value of time.

I have been taught how to use the typewriter when i was in school... and even now it stuck with me, the proper use of typewriter and because of this i am so fast and quick when i type. :D It proved to be really helpful when i worked and i was alwas one of the first to finish the work i had to do with regards to typing. my skills developed i am so quick to type here in mylot too! :D so it is really helpful. My love for books are due to my dad who loves to read, and i was greatly influenced by him. =)

As well as what you learned - I was always taught about music and good books from my mother and father - my first book was Alice in Wonderland and my dad had lots of detective magazines, so I got interested in mysteries. But as for school, when I was in grade school they had this symphony program where once a month or once a week they took all us pupils to a free Symphony concert. We had to take typing lessons but most of it was because not having enough money to afford University or could not keep a house if we were paid for. So the only choice was to be a secretary or office worker. But the typing did come in handy when writing .

The most valuable skill for me learned in the school may be the ability to learn a new language by myself. My high school English teacher was a great person can speak several languages. So she chose a very useful for us to learn English. Then I used the skill to deal with Japanese and found out that can be used to learn other languages. Now I try to use my spare time learning Korean. I hope I can use it when I travel to Korean.

I think that when I was in third grade I had a teacher who made Math a fun subject. We would have games or races in class where the only way you could advance (in the game) is if you answered a math equation right. I think that stuck with me. Even though I had struggles with Trigonometry in high school, and Calculus in college, math was still a fun subject for me. Overall, I think it's proven particularly useful specially in my chosen career.

I can't pinpoint something that really stands out but somehow it must be reading too. This started in my first year high school when our English teacher required us to submit synopsis of narrative books equivalent to total points he had imposed for us to pass the subject. He provided a list of books found in the school library and their corresponding points for us to choose what to read. That imposition had formed my reading habit which had really been very useful in various aspects of my life.

Guess what? My dad was the one who encourage me to read books. As a child, instead of bringing me chocolates or candies from work, he would often bring me a book to read on. Although he didn't really impose on me to read all the time, but I guess, it really was interesting for me. I prefer reading with my books than being outside.

Well me it help me a lot of being who I am today, respect of other people rights and most specially how to be with a group and how used my time when I am alone that is reading novels.

I gained my love for reading at home but school really capitalized it for me. I could read and read and when I ran out at home, there was always school. I suppose another thing that school taught me the most about was people. We are all confined to the people we are around until we go to school and then there is a huge array of diversity. Some good, some bad. Either way..it was a lesson.

Nothing to be honest. After I finished school I started learning a lot, several educations/professsions, mostly because they were of my interest. I just have memories of being bullied (racism), a history teacher that was a great teller (I love history and specific the middle ages and fairy tales, storytellers) and that teachers know way less as they will ever admit and are not really intersted in the pupils. I also remember (learned) during the art lessons that it's not allowed to say you don't like/love art (like my teacher said: it's not interesting if you like it).

Not adult life but Iam still in learning part but not in school.School life was most interesting in life.The thing you called typing and all they are common these days with library.But part is we don't like to read bools.What I remeber is they make my small calculation very fast and one of fast in school and other is which I feel today is sports lover and I play other than studies to entertain myself and take part in some level of matches.So I think school life was very helpful to me and still I am going on with my learning experience.

Id have to say it was during my 8th grade year in reading class. Brenda was my teacher and she taught me that reading could take me away for awhile.

Algebraic logic. Both sides of the equation must equal. It doesn't just work for math problems.