# Preparing young adults for an uncertain future: education **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [May 26, 2026, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/preparing-young-adults-for-an-uncertain-future-education/1030412 "2026-05-26T19:23:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 161
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2026, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/preparing-young-adults-for-an-uncertain-future-education/1030412/161 "2026-06-10T15:48:51Z")
FWIW - consider that this board is an overwhelmingly highly educated crowd. We still get this thread: > [@What were the most useless skills you were taught in school?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-the-most-useless-skills-you-were-taught-in-school/1030648): > > In another thread I started on “Worst teacher”, someone brought up the fact that they were taught how to diagram sentences, a skill that I was also painfully taught…and never had to use in over 60 years. I believe that someone mentioned that they loved to do it, I don’t think anyone mentioned that they actually needed that “skill”. I also learned how to type on a manual typewriter (which I guess might come in handy when using a computer keyboard), and how to use a slide rule (gee, I can’t reme… These are not posters who just aren’t seeing that liberal arts can be useful even if you don’t directly use it, they bemoan having to learn math skills that they feel they don’t need … A little dissonance here. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/preparing-young-adults-for-an-uncertain-future-education/1030412)._