Yes, your version does sound stupid. English, Math, History and Geography at the high school level are fairly straight forward, and the subjects are important

Yes, your version does sound stupid. English, Math, History and Geography at the high school level are fairly straight forward, and the subjects are important to a rounded character. They really are not hard. Most of Grad school is utterly gruelling, there isn't time to sleep, students pulled in different directions, and studying mostly arcane subjects that really are not important to anyone.