Quote Originally Posted by Melanie View Post
> In most subjects you are "continuously educated" ...

A very wise man I once knew always quoted an old Polish saying to us youngsters... "education does not end at school but at death" ...cheerful kinda guy...
I cant remember where I saw it but there was a comment that the only thing you really learn at school is How to learn and I believe that to be true. Apart from the basics of reading writing and arithmetic (or maths if you prefer) I think that very little of what I was taught in school has any bearing on my knowledge today.

In Geography we learnt mostly about foreign countries that no longer exist or have changed their names but didnt learn where all the different counties of the UK were.

In History we learnt starting at the year "dot" and working forwards. By the time I stopped doing history we were just about touching on the Industrial Revolution and didnt really do anything on the 20th Century whereas IMHO the last 100 years have had far more influence on our lives than the preceding 2000 therefore we should have started within living memory and worked backwards.