While musing in the garden, I pondered how relevant was the stuff I was taught in school to my 60 years on this mortal coil?

Only in primary school was there any folk heritage introduced in the forms of country dancing & the BBC series of Singing Together.

Both of these have had relevance in my life, as opposed to much of the other stuff.

Apart from being given instruction in the 3Rs plus a smattering of geog/hist, I'm wondering why the educational authorities placed so much importance on children learning about the intricacies of the Bessemer Converter, tin mining in Cornwall & constructing a model of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre from a cardboard box from the co-op?

Not one of these examples has had any useful impact on my life.

Anyone similar experiences of being forced to learn such tosh?