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This is a curious assault on general knowledge that you display here - what precisely would you consider to be "useless information", and why? Schooling at the
by quasque 14y ago
This is a curious assault on general knowledge that you display here - what precisely would you consider to be "useless information", and why?
Schooling at the level you're at now is designed to be well-rounded, and I suspect you would be doing yourself a future disservice if you chose to completely reject it in favour of your current narrow interests.
- shawndumas 14y agothe insipid inanity that they pass off as "knowledge" really is not worth his time. he would be much better served reading broadly; historic fiction, science/nature periodicals, the classics etc
- quasque 14y agoAs I am unfamiliar with the state of the US education system, could you please explain what exactly are you referring to?
- shawndumas 14y agobelow is an example of what is done and what to do diff. this is about science but you can extrapolate to the other subjects. teachers like Tyler DeWitt are vastly underrepresented in the school system. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVwWN0kjbms&list=FLj3EXpr5v35g3peVWnVLoew&index=2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVwWN0kjbms&list=FLj3EXpr...
- shawndumas 14y agoalso see this: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/02/09/a-warning-to-college-profs-from-a-high-school-teacher/?print=1 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/02/...
- quasque 14y agoThanks for the links. The speaker in that video makes an excellent point about science communication which I think applies to all education and not just primary/seconday school. For example, even scientific journals having "commentary" or "news and views" sections alongside the papers is incredibly important to tell the readers why the research may be important (if they don't follow it intimately already).