When are you ever going to have to explain a sonnet or tell someone the the date of the battle of Gettysburg or dissect a frog or know what a precipitate is or…

When are you ever going to have to explain a sonnet or tell someone the the date of the battle of Gettysburg or dissect a frog or know what a precipitate is or… basically any specific thing you learn in school? It’s not that you have to do each thing every day, it’s that they give you a broad understanding of the context of what humans know about the world and how it works so you can understand it. Calculus is part of that too. What would school look like if we only taught things that are used every day? I guess kids would learn how to drive a car and put on pants and sit in a chair and read emails and that’s about it. You know how TV shows with long-running story arcs will have "Previously on..." before an episode to catch people up with what's happening? School should be a 12 year long "Previously on..." the whole of human history so people can go into the world knowing what's happening and how we got to where we are.