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I'm sorry, but at what point are you disagreeing with me? "Not every student necessarily needs to learn every thing" is essentially the point I'm making.
by jemfinch 16y ago
I'm sorry, but at what point are you disagreeing with me?
"Not every student necessarily needs to learn every thing" is essentially the point I'm making.
- jacobolus 16y agoOkay, how about this: every student should learn trigonometry and how to dance and how to cook and how double-entry bookkeeping works and how to speak several foreign languages, most (personally I think all or nearly all) students should learn calculus, and a large (much larger than now) percentage should learn how to operate a band saw. Calculus is just absolutely fundamental to so much of the technology that we use every day that students who do not learn calculus are at a serious disadvantage comprehending our built environment.
- jemfinch 16y agoCalculus is not fundamental to the technology that we use every day. I work an extremely technically challenging job and I'm serious, I haven't used calculus or trigonometry since my last physics exam in undergrad. Am I happy I know them? Sure, because I like knowing things. Are they even remotely useful in my everyday life? Not a bit. Please, by all means, demonstrate a place where a person who doesn't know calculus is at a disadvantage interacting with the technology of the world around us. Until then, I'm calling bullshit.