Worst subject in school?

Back in highschool I hated Latin, but mostly because of the teacher. And it was pointless too (we were a science class and we weren't "learning" Latin as a part of a classical education, but because of the taxonomies in biology being in Latin - most stupid rationale ever).

Also, the math that was stuffed into us was excessively advanced. I have no problems with maths in itself though. But we really didn't need Analysis, Trigonometry and so forth.

Equality 7-2521 wrote: I understand the disdain for math education, but  I don't understand the disdain for the subject itself. I especially don't understand why people feel no shame bragging about their complete ineptitude with mathematics.

Same here. I'm not especially great at maths, though it was probably my best subject at school (I hated school so much that all subjects qualify as my worse subject - I left school at 16, my 6 years further education came through the laborious process of day-release and evening classes before I could go to University full-time), I only have a passing interest in theoretical maths but when it came to applied maths and applied physics everything just clicks into place and the world just seems to make more sense. I can't really imagine trying to understand the world without knowing mathematics, which is probably why I find philosophy such a tedious yawn (and pointless endeavour) ... fortunately that was one subject never covered while I was in school so while it would be my absolute worse subject, it simply isn't.

Edited by Dean - April 17 2012 at 07:51

Social studies, Religion, Computer knowledge...

clarke2001 wrote: I was never too fond of biology.

I was so not fond of biology that I never once have studied it in any capacity

I was never too fond of biology.

CCVP wrote: The T wrote: I was in a German School (again, not only for Germans) in Quito and I had to take chemistry in German. That was a total nightmare.  WHAT?

Oh sorry Caio I guess that wasn't clear. Let's retry. 

The T wrote: I was in a German School (again, not only for Germans) in Quito and I had to take chemistry in German. That was a total nightmare.

I'm actually kind of embarrassed. It's not like I'm proud of it. Calculus would probably be really helpful to me with acoustics and all that, but plenty of people have been successful in music and music technology without kicking ass in calculus anyway. Besides if I stared wide-eyed and stunned at algebra, there's hardly a point with calculus now.

I probably would have liked math and math-related subjects more if I was taught in some way what exactly I was doing. 

math by far,  everything else I enjoyed or could do well if I applied myself

I've forgotten more math than you'll ever learn, sonny jim.  

Also, this thread is at the end of the first page (maybe onto the second by now), this forum is full of people of all nations, and there hasn't been an argument yet over whether "math" or "maths" is correct?