The American school system is based on the middle, to upper class, useful things like balancing a check book or budgeting, are completely ignored leaving many students clueless as to how they work, since their parents may not really know how ether.
Unlike Thoreau, I think it’s when we keep on learning that we begin to know. Often, what we learn doesn’t have any immediate value, but in time, it may be put to use. I studied a lot of integral calculus in a tech school for a job in the electronics industry. I never used any of that math in the jobs that I did after graduating, but I did use the math when trying to figure the area under a curve on a land plat. Though I had a computer that used the trapezoid rule to do the problem so much faster than my prodding integrations, I was ever so thankful for what I’d learned.
nicka93 almost 3 years ago
The American school system is based on the middle, to upper class, useful things like balancing a check book or budgeting, are completely ignored leaving many students clueless as to how they work, since their parents may not really know how ether.
preacherman Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Unlike Thoreau, I think it’s when we keep on learning that we begin to know. Often, what we learn doesn’t have any immediate value, but in time, it may be put to use. I studied a lot of integral calculus in a tech school for a job in the electronics industry. I never used any of that math in the jobs that I did after graduating, but I did use the math when trying to figure the area under a curve on a land plat. Though I had a computer that used the trapezoid rule to do the problem so much faster than my prodding integrations, I was ever so thankful for what I’d learned.
moondog42 Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Eh, Thoreau lived in somebody’s spare guest cottage and convinced everyone he was “roughing it” all alone in the woods, so what does HE know?
gcarlson almost 3 years ago
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ” ― Alvin Toffler
Drbarb71 Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Spoken like a true Jedi.