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We're also teaching kids about subjects they literally couldn't care less about. Every single class I took on World History, Arts, and English literature was ve
by icelancer 14y ago
We're also teaching kids about subjects they literally couldn't care less about. Every single class I took on World History, Arts, and English literature was very close to useless. I bet the artists and English lit lovers would say the same thing about Chemistry and Physics.
We don't trust 16 year olds to make decisions on what they do and do not want to study, so we force them to study some things we know they won't like. And why?
- ZachPruckowski 14y agoBecause we want them to have a level of understanding of those fields, even if it's shallow. It's good for society if as many people as possible understand algebra or World War I or how to read and write at a high level. If for no other reason than that as a democracy, we need our citizenry to have a certain base level of knowledge of how the world works.
- icelancer 14y agoCitation needed on the "broad base of knowledge being useful" tidbit.