What I would have liked to have learned in English classes at school:
- Grammar.
- The history of how the language evolved from one with a rich conjugation and case system into the vastly structurally simpler one we have now.
- Points of convergence and divergence with other languages, closely related or not. How did that happen?
- How to speak and write beautifully and precisely with rhetorical flourishes if needed
What I actually learned in English classes at school:
- Thomas Hardy really hated women.