WTF does the ninja academy teach?

Ero sennin jiraiya

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If Naruto was there for like 3 years and still didn't know wtf chakra natures were or what his was. Like seriously you'd think this is one of the things they would learn early on, maybe have some specialized classes with instructors for each different nature. I mean he couldn't even do basic elemental ninjutsu, an a lot of the characters don't seem to use their chakra natures at all.

I don't get why. My only explanation is that Kishimoto hadn't come up with the idea for them until later on in the series.

Just sayin...
 

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Naruto was a shitty student lol. He didn't pay attention to classes!
 

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Basic combat skills that are just enough to get you raped in the bell test, and how to do a transformation justu, because that is the entire exam.
 

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I think they teach the principles of a shinobi and the extreme basics of taijutsu and ninjutsu.
 

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history of shinobi world(except classified truths), geography(nations) political map and kages, and also to throw shuriken and kunai, plus basic moves maybe....
 

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Obviously not enough.
 

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Naruto was a shitty student lol. He didn't pay attention to classes!

I figured that would be a popular answer. Yea he was a crappy student but this seems like the basics to me. Plus, it isn't just Naruto. A lot of the characters don't seem to use elemental ninjutsu at all. For example, all inochikacho use are their secret techs. I get it, it's the base of their strategy but don't you think they would benefit from knowing a few simple offensive/defensive elemental ninjutsu as well?
 

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Naruto was noted to be a slacker.
And you don't learn elements while in the academy.
Also since everyone doesn't have the same nature affinity there is not basic elemental attack.
 

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Naruto was noted to be a slacker.
And you don't learn elements while in the academy.
Also since everyone doesn't have the same nature affinity there is not basic elemental attack.

Well this is why I said it would make sense for them to have specialized classes based on their chakra natures. That would increase the strength of Konoha's ninja quite a bit with all of them at least knowing how to use their nature affinity.

Plus, it doesn't exactly take someone with the same nature to teach something about elemental jutsu. Kakashi taught Naruto about his wind natured chakra. He got some help from Asuma as well, but was on his way to learning the basics already with Kakashi.
 

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Its true naruto didnt pay attenton in class.
And no they dont teach you how to USE elemental ninjutsu in the academy. Everyones is different
Obviously they taught what chakra natures were, but naruto is dumb.
 

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Elemental jutsu is a higher level technique. The students there are just starting out. The ninja academy teaches the foundations of jutsu. It's just like the real world; you have to start at kindergarden and work your way up to college and from there you decide what you want to be and get specialized training for it.
 

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Basically the initial lessons were indirectly for us to understand the concept...Lol..xd
 

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Elemental jutsu is a higher level technique. The students there are just starting out. The ninja academy teaches the foundations of jutsu. It's just like the real world; you have to start at kindergarden and work your way up to college and from there you decide what you want to be and get specialized training for it.

Basic elemental jutsu isn't really super high level. Even if they couldn't really do any decent jutsu yet you'd think they'd at least learn what their chakra nature is considering it was such an easy test. All they needed were those slips of paper.
 

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Chakra
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history of shinobi world(except classified truths), geography(nations) political map and kages, and also to throw shuriken and kunai, plus basic moves maybe....

History of Konoha? Remember that scene where Orochimaru summons Hashirama and Tobirama when attacking Konoha. Those ANBU outside the shield were like "OMG OMG, Who are those two?!?" That was just awkward.
 

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he is also an airhead, a person who underestimate almost all his opponents and rush into battles screaming "Friendship","Sasuke","Never give up" and "Hokage", a person who overused rasengan to the point where rasengan look weak compared to it being used by Minato, a person who spams kage bunshin like it's the most ultimate technique there is, a person who the manga says 'has surpassed Minato and Kushina on chakra control' and yet couldn't even use rasengan properly without the help of his sacred kage bunshin and a person who relies on his pimp daddy's chakra, so yeah, we should all totally based our statement on his actions and knowledge. not to mention that he also skips classes like he's some kinda genius but that's fine b'cause he's God and all.
 

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They taught alot o' things, Naruto just doesnt pat attention
 
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