What was the most useful thing you learnt at school?

[doubleup]

I learned that my married Geography teacher was having an affair with one of the English teachers.

That proved very useful the time he tried to give me a detention.

[G1BTW]

maybe I was bright for my age. obv didn't last long

I think the most useful thing I learnt was how to get away with doing stuff I shouldn't be doing. this has helped me more than any other individual skill in my life so far

ban please. Must be up to something.

[thetank]

Concentration, logical thinking, independant desicion making, objectivity and the fact that with rights come responsibilities were all candidates.

Most useful thing I learned was that offence sells tickets and defence wins championships.

[The-Crow]

I learnt to play 3 card brag between lessons   

and at lunch break we helped each other repair our motorbikes   

At 16 I ran the school tuck shop, and we ate all the damaged goods, unfit to sell,

 like crisps, dented coke cans, and half melted ice-cream.

We had an lot of damaged goods, lol,

[Claw75]

At 16 I ran the school tuck shop

is that like a buttery?

[Simon Galloway]

I also ran the tuck shop!  Wtf were they thinking?  It would be like asking the Rolling Stones to look after your pub for you whilst you went on holiday.

Here's what I learned at school:

A fortnight of hard cramming>>>working all year.

The Psychology of a Poker Player The Psychology of (some) mediocre teachers.

Thanks to Friends Reunited 20 years later, 3 of the girls I would love to have doinked were actually quite amenable to the idea - shame I didn't ask.  FML.

A little bit of highly personal material can comfortably cover up otherwise inadequate essays.

Opening a (shaken) can of coke up in a girl's face isn't the best way to get to stage 2.

School dinner tickets can be traded significantly below face value.

[Dingdell]

I also ran the tuck shop!  Wtf were they thinking?  It would be like asking the Rolling Stones to look after your pub for you whilst you went on holiday.

Here's what I learned at school:

A fortnight of hard cramming>>>working all year.

The Psychology of a Poker Player The Psychology of (some) mediocre teachers.

Thanks to Friends Reunited 20 years later, 3 of the girls I would love to have doinked were actually quite amenable to the idea - shame I didn't ask.  FML.

A little bit of highly personal material can comfortably cover up otherwise inadequate essays.

Opening a (shaken) can of coke up in a girl's face isn't the best way to get to stage 2.

School dinner tickets can be traded significantly below face value.

Are you sure we weren't separated at birth? That sort of sums up my education too.

[Acidmouse]

Useful was spending 3 years a highschool milking people playing nearest to the wall. Me and friend went halfs and proper took loads from the same people day after day. I learnt not to listen to other people and their opinions, trust your own instincts.

[rex008]

F = ma

But then I did go to an all-boys school.

[The_nun]

To pad my knickers with loo roll b4 going into to see pervy Mr jones who like to give the whip.

[relaedgc]

Reading and writing. While it's obviously a skill that you develop before your start school, I don't think there's any doubt you really make any serious progress until you're in full time education. I've always felt that if you can read and write, then there's simply no object to whatever you wish to learn.

[Cf]

Useful was spending 3 years a highschool milking people playing nearest to the wall. Me and friend went halfs and proper took loads from the same people day after day. I learnt not to listen to other people and their opinions, trust your own instincts.

Was this the throwing coins at wall game? I loved this myself, and made some good money out of it

[cia260895]

To hide my cigs well enough that the teachers couldn't find them and nick them off me.

this was easy.we always got captured by the spiral staircase and when the teachers told us to empty our pockets i would always pull out a fiver and get told to pick it up quickly b4 it blew away ...worked every time..

[cia260895]

Useful was spending 3 years a highschool milking people playing nearest to the wall. Me and friend went halfs and proper took loads from the same people day after day. I learnt not to listen to other people and their opinions, trust your own instincts.

Was this the throwing coins at wall game? I loved this myself, and made some good money out of it

the nearest to the wall picked all coins up shook them and called heads or tails and kept whatever landed that way?

bet it would be fun with £1's today we done it with 10p's

[Scottish Dave]

Useful was spending 3 years a highschool milking people playing nearest to the wall. Me and friend went halfs and proper took loads from the same people day after day. I learnt not to listen to other people and their opinions, trust your own instincts.

Was this the throwing coins at wall game? I loved this myself, and made some good money out of it

the nearest to the wall picked all coins up shook them and called heads or tails and kept whatever landed that way?

bet it would be fun with £1's today we done it with 10p's

i left school 11 years ago now, and it was £1 coins wee used, sometimes there were 15-20 playing, and if came 1st, you were onto around £10 right away if lucky.