From finding angle ‘x’ to kunyambua vitenzi. Kenyans on useless things learned in school

Today on The Morning Kiss with Kamene and Kibe, they decided to take us back to our school days and the useless things we learned.

According to Kamene, some maths topics were really very irrelevant and for Kibe, some Swahili and Chemistry topics were so useless.

This discussion got so many people calling in with hilarious stories that just killed the Monday Blues. We need a good laugh in these tough times, something away from deaths and how hard the economy is messing with people worldwide.

Here are some of what callers had to say:

Warui: Kiswahili set books and analyzing every the characters one by one from the main ones to the most irrelevant one. We even used to describe their moods yet we could not see them and we didn’t know them. How has that helped me?

John: Periodic tables in chemistry. We used to master letters and some numbers that represented them and that has never helped me in life. Even the litmus papers. I have never seent hem past high school.

Peter: Some staff on how the earth formed its self in geography has never helped me I do not know why we learned it.

Johnte: Mathematics when we were being told to draw angel A to meet B and find the angel x in the middle. How is that help me now?

Joyce: The education system in Kenya is overrated it is a scam. Kiswahili the kunyambua kitenzi and tanakali za sauti kulia kwi kwi kwi. Have you ever used it? And then Insha’s what was that?

Kamene then commented and said,

that is why we came up with twa twa twa.

Ian: Solvery process in Chemistry. Laws of Chemistry on the masses of gas in the air. Where are you doing that in town? You will look like a mad person.

Kamene then went way down memory lane in Biology,

when we learned about close and open stomata.

Kamene then started talking about the microscope and how teachers used to tell them to look in and identify cells. Kibe was not conversant with this experience because they never had a microscope.

Us guys did not have microscopes, we used to read about it and see them in diagrams. All these things you are saying you could see in microscopes we used to just learn about them theoretically

Susan: Calculus when we were being told to find the value of dx in math. Then to make it worse, when you do not get it we used to be beaten by teachers who were having their own problems back at home they will just release it on us

Kevo: The math problems of if three people can dig a shamba in three hours how many hours will eight men take to dig the same shamba. Or when we were being told to calculate the speed the bus needs to travel so that Jane can make it to her destination at 3:30 pm. How has that helped us? It was so far from reality.

I am sure you are laughing about so much more just thinking about the syllabus.