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"How does not learninging unnecessary skills hinders ability to solve new problems?" I disagree here. Life is not so easy that you can ignore many problems. If

"How does not learninging unnecessary skills hinders ability to solve new problems?" I disagree here. Life is not so easy that you can ignore many problems. If you don't know certain skills you don't know the best way to solve it and it can lead to various problem. Its like saying why learn chemistry, advance math, physics in high school when you might not even use them other than few simple formula and if you need them just learn it from team. I don't think this is how real world works.

jcelerier 5y ago
> Its like saying why learn chemistry, advance math, physics in high school when you might not even use them other than few simple formula and if you need them just learn it from team. I don't think this is how real world works. the point of learning all that in high school is not to learn about these things specifically, just to teach you how to learn things fast so that you can easily learn what's useful when you work. No one cares about what you learned in chemistry class at 15 y.o, it's all approximations if not outright wrong stuff sometimes and it does not matter in the slightest.
- kaba0 5y ago
  Hard disagree. While indeed atomic models taught in school are way too simplistic, it’s a much better world view to vaguely remember than not knowing anything about molecules/atoms. The same for biology, and we should indeed push for somewhat stronger education in most countries (as is apparent from stupid antivaxxers), as having at least the correct mindset on scientific things is exceedingly important.
  - jcelerier 5y ago
    The correct mindset to "not be an antivaxxer" definitely does not correlate with raw knowledge. Proper philosophy and logical reasoning classes are infinitely more efficient for that, though a bit more background in statistics and probabilities would also likely help as it seems that a lot of people struggle with that.

jcelerier 5y ago

> Its like saying why learn chemistry, advance math, physics in high school when you might not even use them other than few simple formula and if you need them just learn it from team. I don't think this is how real world works. the point of learning all that in high school is not to learn about these things specifically, just to teach you how to learn things fast so that you can easily learn what's useful when you work. No one cares about what you learned in chemistry class at 15 y.o, it's all approximations if not outright wrong stuff sometimes and it does not matter in the slightest.

kaba0 5y ago
Hard disagree. While indeed atomic models taught in school are way too simplistic, it’s a much better world view to vaguely remember than not knowing anything about molecules/atoms. The same for biology, and we should indeed push for somewhat stronger education in most countries (as is apparent from stupid antivaxxers), as having at least the correct mindset on scientific things is exceedingly important.
- jcelerier 5y ago
  The correct mindset to "not be an antivaxxer" definitely does not correlate with raw knowledge. Proper philosophy and logical reasoning classes are infinitely more efficient for that, though a bit more background in statistics and probabilities would also likely help as it seems that a lot of people struggle with that.