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While I agree everyone should know those things, everyone also went to math, history, English, and biology yet nobody remembers anything from them either. None

• Retric 5y ago
  People remember a great deal from English, History, Biology etc. Anything used regularly like say touch typing sticks around. What they forget is generally unimportant details. So, most Americans will know the difference between a period and an exclamation mark. That Lincoln was president during the civil war even if they can’t the battles. Mice come from mice not grain. Basically the kind of basic facts that seem inherent until you realize you needed to learn them somewhere. And of course people who went further into Math, History, etc where building from foundations created in those years.
• ClumsyPilot 5y ago
  A lot of school knowledge is too abstract and removed from life: biology class taught me about cell structure and DNA, not how to do first aid, or the difference between paracetomol and ibuprophere, it doesnt help me choose a health insurance, etc. People then those same people who supposedly learnt biology become vaccine sceptics: this 'knowledge' is not knowledge that was every used and proved real to them, its just collection of words they remembered and regorgitated in an exam.