In article , "J. Clarke" wrote:
Douglas Johnson wrote:
"J. Clarke" wrote:

The schools are a miserable experience that produce mediocre
results. The argument that they are better than nothing doesn't
wash. What did you personally learn in the public schools school
other than to read and write and do sums that was of any real value
in later life?

Touch typing.

Ok, I admit, that was useful.

"Useful" is IMO something of an understatement. It is a never-ending source of
wonder to me to see how very few computer programmers -- who spend our
freaking *lives* at keyboards -- can touch-type.

Driver's Ed.

Really worthless. Learned more from my Dad in an hour than in a whole
semester of that crap.

Amen to that.

One thing Dad taught me that they never even mentioned in Driver's Ed: if you
see a ball bounce out into the road, hit the brakes NOW, because there WILL be
a child behind it.