Why are useless subjects like poetry taught in school?

OK, let's say your school focuses on teaching you how to survive and get a job. And you do. You get a job, and you work for, let's be optimistic here, 40 hours a week. You're at work 40 hours a week, eight hours a day with weekends off. read more

I also taught for special programs designed to retain first year students from non-conventional backgrounds, as well as a few courses on creative writing, a few upper division undergrad courses, tutored any number of subjects and taught the occasional college and grad-school prep course. read more

Actually, every subjects taught in school are important. It is our capacity and likings which determine some subjects become useless for us and useful for other people. For example, natural sciences and mathematics (pure and physics) are used for making things like medicine or computer. read more