“Why Do We Need to Learn This?”
May 3, 2014
Many a student has asked, and many a teacher has been asked, “When are we ever going to use this stuff?” It’s a fair question coming from students who get frustrated by learning concepts that are too abstract or irrelevant for them to fathom and who most likely will not remember the majority of what is taught to them beyond the final test!
In my early years as a junior high English teacher, many of my students would ask why they needed to learn grammar lessons about subjects,…