Lessons Stay Relevant Beyond Campus

BySean Willem A. Giron

Lessonscan beboring, and who elseto voiceout that kind of opinion if not students. Therewill alwaysbe theusual thought of if theselessons would ever even beused in our daily lives. In aworld of calculatorsand google, learning math and other subjectsmay seem pointless, asit may not be helpful in our daily lives, but they aren?t hereto just giveusahard timeat school. Theselessons, like algebraand thehistory of art havevaluesand use that extendsout of the confinesof theclassroom.

Certain school lessons can teach students different values.Lessons likealgebracan help studentspracticetheir problem solving and logic skills. It can help student?s figureout how to solve problemson their own with thematerialsthat they haveat their disposal. Algebraic formulascan beapplied to real lifeasstudentsgrow up, and thesereal life applicationsshould be used morein thingslike word problems, likeif someonewould buy a product that would havea priceto pay per month, then how much money would they need to pay for anumber of months?Students could figureout thepayment per month and how many monthsthey would haveto pay, then by multiplying them together they would find out how much money they need. If theproduct hasaflat amount when first buying it, then students could useaY=mx+b formulato find out how much money they need.

Thehistory of countriesor art can help uslearn from othersand from ourselves. Thebest but cruelest teacher isexperience, asyou haveto go through itsexam first before receiving itslesson, but the advantageof documenting history is so that peopledon?t haveto learn the hard way. Through theexperiencesof othersin history, studentscan learn to avoid making thesamemistakes history did. Studentsmay think learning about World War II could be taught in English classmight seem useless, but they arealso helpful to studentsbeyond just for testsor homework. It teachesstudentshow to better expresstheir arguments, and makeastand for themselves. Learning how to properly do an argumentativeessay teachesstudents whereto put their claim, information, and argument in amanner that helps studentsget their point through clearly and strongly. Thisis especially useful when studentsapply for jobs and colleges, asthey need to know how to properly argueon why they should beaccepted for that job or college. To do thisthey need to learn how to highlight their strengths, and learning essayscan help that. unnecessary, but studying how peoplelikeHitler used propaganda and censorship to push an agenda that Germansshould bethesuperior racecan help studentsrealizethat they should avoid blindly following information and to think for themselves, teaching them that studentsshould learn how to find information on their own to know what istrue. It also can help them to figureout what thingsarenot right and when they should bestanding up for themselves.

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Theseexamplesare only afew of thethings that seemingly useless lessonscan teach us. Theselessonscan be used in placesbeyond theconfinesof the classroom. Even in complicated lessonslike trigonometry, quadratics, poetry, book analysis, history or cultureof other countries, thesecan help teach studentsdifferent qualitiesto makethem independent individuals, likehow to solve problemson their own with math, how to learn from your and others mistakesand experienceslikein history, and how to makeastand for yourself and how to better express yourself likein English class. So the next timestudentscomeacrossa lesson that seemscomplicated or useless, they should approach it with an open mind, astheselessons alwayshaveasecret, and not so secret, lesson to teach.