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knowing about gogi bodies, hockey, and black holes is a personal choice, and it wouldnt be efficient to teach these topics in depth to everyone. needing higher
by autokad 10y ago
knowing about gogi bodies, hockey, and black holes is a personal choice, and it wouldnt be efficient to teach these topics in depth to everyone.
needing higher level math is absolutely unnecessary for 99% of the working population, so the argument that our economy will fall to pieces unless we force high level calculus and trig on every student seems suspect.
however, it is hurting america in an indirect way. we have an elitism going on that only students from top universities get dibs on the best and important positions out of college, and our graduates are becoming increasingly foreign, as american students aren't prepared to get 165+ math GRE scores.
- sriram_malhar 10y agoThe specifics of hockey and golgi bodies are not important. Practically everything we learn in high school is unimportant for 99% of the working population. My point is that it is important for a culture to aim high. There is a reason why Israel produces way more innovation than Saudi Arabia, although most of the population in both countries has no use for calculus or igneous rocks.