School would be okay if they only taught you things that were somewhat relative to your life. Take algebra: The formulas and stuff are okay if you don't have variables, because you can use the formulas. But how many times has a person said "Man I wish I could by that, but it's xyz to the tenth power dollars." It's stupid. The only use we'll ever have for formulas with variables is if we become algebra teachers and teach kids to do algebra that they'll never use unless they teach algebra and so on and so on.