Is school for learning, or following instructions?

So you see I was in the jungle when all of the sudden there was a pack of jaguars. They passed me the Pythagoras Theorem and told me to use it to solve for the length of the hypotnuese of a triangle. I then did the math and they left me alone. Alright so little Timmy, now do you see why you need math in the real world?

Reminds me of that one time I was kidnapped, tied to a chair, and had a gun pointed at my head. The kidnapper had me solve 3x2(9yz)4a and explain every step of the problem out loud.

Reminds me of the time I was in Doofensmirtz's lair and he gave me 3x + 8.5^2 = 8 and I had to find the answer or else he will Disappearinator me.

Throwback to that one time that I was trapped in a warehouse full of timed bombs. The door and windows were covered and locked. Then a voice came over a speaker and had me solve ((9*square root of 67)+89(5x-91)) within the amount of time left on the bombs.

Oh yeah I remember when the speed limit sign used 6x + 2 = 152 and to solve to find the speed limit.

I got flashbacks to when someone switched out the time on the clock for equations so you had to solve them to find the time.

That makes me remember when I went to a birthday party and instead of one candle per year, they used letter candles that wrote the equation 2x + 5 = 36 and to solve for their age.

I'm putting this as a reminder to myself of the time that I had to determine the velocity of a baseball before it reached me.

That reminds me of the time I was building a birdhouse and needed to find the volume of the birdhouse and the volume of a bird to see how many birds can live in there.

That brings back memories of when I had to determine the mass, volume, weight, and density of a tank I hijacked.