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Because there's more to participating in society than hyper-specialization. You may be the world's greatest herpetologists, but you still need to maintain your
by closetohome 7y ago
Because there's more to participating in society than hyper-specialization. You may be the world's greatest herpetologists, but you still need to maintain your finances, do your taxes, and vote in a way that requires historical and contextual knowledge.
- ksdale 7y agoAre kids learning enough to maintain their finances, do their taxes, and vote in a way that integrates historical knowledge? It's not my experience that the average 18 year old knows any of those things, and the article suggests that many people aren't coming away from school with basic literacy or numeracy. This all goes back to a point I alluded to in my first post. When someone suggests that public education is badly broken and perhaps could use an overhaul, they are bombarded with arguments about the importance of education that seem to ignore the fact that a very disappointingly large number of people are not, in fact, receiving anywhere near that level of education.