Na for discussion forum like this you go know say no knowledge when you don gather so far is a waste. Sometimes discussions go burst out for some board inside the forum like this and if you read through the replies you go find so many persons when de struggle to relate with the topic being discussed because they are probably hearing it for the first time.
For economy board for instance, you go de hear discussion about inflation, monopoly and someny other small small concept when we don learn for secondary schooll snd for you to fit contribute meaningfully, you need understand those terms. Apart from that one, e get plenty discussion when you go fit easily relate with based on the theoretical knowledge you don been gather for school.
So my question be say, how your general knowledge for school don de help you for both the forum and for real life?
Basically, there is no knowledge that's wasted but it is dependent on how you apply your knowledge towards the right concepts. Sometimes, I use to hear people say that their courses doesn't have anything to do with a particular subject so I just begin to wonder why some persons could be this adamant about how the world is revolving as those things we feel like we ain't gonna face are the things we mostly face in reality.
It is important to note that inasmuch as life is concerned, we keep learning regardless of if we feel that what we are learning might not be too useful to us in life but there are times when you will need to apply that particular knowledge in other to solve a problem and if you don't have it then you would find it difficult and even sort people to help you when it was something you had the opportunity to learn but you care less about it thinking that you don't need it in your life.
I remembered a time when I gained admission in higher institution and I was given a course that wasn't my intention to study and I looked at myself and said well let me just do the course rather than spending a year at home looking for admission again to study my desired course, so I started with the course given to me by the institution and i was finding it difficult in the first semester but however, when the second semester started I begin to understand the course little by little and was very conversant with the course and graduated. Now, the course I studied was actually what has been aiding me in life so had it been I refuse to do the course maybe I would have been looking for admission to study my desired course and may never have gained admission to study.
Morals: don't despise any knowledge in life because sometimes life doesn't really go the way we think or reason, a knowledge you refuse to acquire today might be the knowledge you might require to take you to your destination in life so no knowledge is a waste.