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I take it more like an update of the educational system. I recall a lot of stuff I learned back in high that was plain obsolete in our postindustrial society. I
by JVIDEL 12y ago
I take it more like an update of the educational system. I recall a lot of stuff I learned back in high that was plain obsolete in our postindustrial society. It made perfect sense for my dad to learn basic metalworking since a lot of people used to work at factories back then, but now it does not.
- nostrademons 12y agoYou see it even more with the sciences. Anyone else find it interesting that the classes taught in a traditional U.S. high-school curriculum - algebra, trig, calculus, mechanics, combustion, fundamentals of life support - are precisely those needed to send rockets into space? And the curriculum itself dates from the 50s and early 60s, when our primary national priority was beating the Soviets and putting a man on the moon? Meanwhile, the STEM skills that are utterly necessary in today's world - statistics, linear algebra, logic, computer programming, electrical engineering, chaos theory, ecology, molecular biology - are largely absent from the traditional curriculum. But then, that's the problem with top-down planning. You end up with systems adapted to the prevailing conditions at their birth, and nobody willing to stick their neck out to change them.
- kajsdsjad 12y agoThat's a very bizarre interpretation of the state of affairs.
- eru 12y agoI'd have killed to get a basic metalworking course in high school. Or anything practical at all.