Completely useless subjects we learnt at school. Warum ist das?

Completely pointless things learnt at school. It’s been the subject of conversation at Chopsy Baby this week. Those things you reflect back on and realise you haven’t used once since carefully filing away the GCSE certificates.

Here’s our list of ten favourite educational disappointments from the early 1990s:

Not having an opportunity to direct a stranger to the bahnoff through the streets of Bristol.

Not being the slightest bit bothered about what time trains leaving from different stations will cross at Slough. There’s an app for this.

Not booking a hotel with a shower instead of a bath in La Rochelle.

Pointing out the various features of an ox-bow lake to our children.

Getting excited about the opportunity to misrepresent a still life of mouldy glass bottles in pastel on sugar paper.

Labelling a diagram of a flower’s reproductive system. Information only useful when you are helping an eight-year-old with homework.

Burning magnesium oxide. Because we want a good dose of Ark Eye.

Adding letters and numbers together.

Netball, badminton, rounders… Five years worth of PE lessons is time that you can never get back.

Macbeth – Good triumphs over evil in the end discuss – no thank you.

Carefully crafted dovetail joints. Not when there’s Ikea.