What has been the most important school subject in your adult life?

[OneUmberJoker]

Maths

English, maths and history

I work in communications/press office and need to understand and analyse complex situations - history is great for this.
I use statistics a lot - I don’t do the reports but need to understand them and do basic maths. I write a lot of press statements and web content so that’s English. I’d say all 3 are equally important for my role.

Biology and art.

If I skip native language, maths and English as the obvious ones for everyday existence, I'd say history.

I'm in technology field, so no connection with my job.

However, in my country the history is teaching the big timeline of the world, and it is fascinating how the human kind got to the place it is now, how people lived their lives earlier, how the few influential ones crossed the rivers and destroyed big empires, how the alliances in the world were shifting, what human kind is capable of.

History is necessary to understand a lot of art and it is a big part of understanding the world around me.

Geography because that's the one I teach. After that I would say English, maths, science and history all have big links to my subject and have given me the skills I need.

definitely maths
I hated it but use it every day
even if just to put formulas into excel

Me too. The two things I've used the most and still use extensively, daily.

Touch typing definitely. Also modern languages for me as that is what I did my degree in. It hasn't been useful for career but definitely useful for cultural life.

Latin, without a doubt.

I've probably used business studies the most, but also art and science are close behind.

if discounting Maths and English then Physics and Chemistry

History

Came on here to say Latin and thought I’d be the only one. Wow. We should have written a joint statement for the current Curriculum and Assessment Review. So difficult to find schools that teach Latin these days.

English - for obvious reasons!
History - my world is a constant of history books, history documentaries and travel to places in the world with a rich history. Life would be very boring without these things. I had a fabulous history teacher Mr Walton.
Science - I like fact, I like to why it’s fact and how it works to make it so.

I passed all my GCSE with A’s and A*’s.

Except for Maths, which I got an F in.

A Level Religious Studies. Trust me on this one...

Philosophy and Old Testament studies. Philosophy taught me that no one really knows anything - we're all just trying to work it out as we go. 'The Bible' taught me not to believe everything you read - especially when it's written by men with hidden agendas!

It helped that the Teacher was just the best. That was the 'teacher who made the difference' for me.

After English I would say it’s been able to see which has benefited me the most.

Art and English

Biology, with a wonderful teacher (who sadly died not long ago). Gave me a love of life sciences but also of classification systems, the scientific method, and clear and systematic logic. I use these every day in my work in some form or another.

PS I so wish I had been taught touch typing at school! I type every day, with two-finger typing (right middle and left index ). (I know I could learn but I have have just never been able to motivate myself to, and now its a case of (very) old dogs and new tricks!).

Both English and Maths, as most other people have said, but I feel lucky I was born at a time when we had the privilege of having really good cookery lessons.

Maths. Home economics was helpful.

Stupendous post, @BlooomUnleashed.👏

Literature in all the iterations in which I encountered it at school: English, French, German, Latin, ancient and modern, prose and poetry. I was a reader anyway, from a family of readers, and I’ve lived my entire adult life bound to, and supported by storytelling. Personally and professionally it has been everything.

I do wish to God that my school hadn’t judged that only the bottom set need learn touch typing. (Those girls could only expect to get jobs as secretaries; the rest of us were expected go to university and then into professions where we would have secretaries.) Lack of typing skills tied me to the lowest paid temping jobs throughout uni. Later on I did have a secretary for a while. Then the bloody Internet happened - and I have never been able to learn to type properly.

I wish I could touch type. When I was at school (1970s) only the less academically able pupils did typing.

I did do evening classes many years later but never managed to master it.

One particular careers lesson (in the 1970's) where we were taught about national insurance, income tax, how to open a bank account, write a cheque etc. I have always had a good understanding of payslip deductions, and I credit that careers teacher with this.

Why does everyone want to be able to touch type?
What am I missing here?

I imagine it would be quicker and less littered with errors that I have to edit out!