There are some very basic concepts that regular schools completely skip that would make all the difference. In my opinion we need classes (for example):
- dedicated to learning how one specifically learns,
- dealing with relating to people/relationships (it's really the main thing a lot of young people think/worry about),
- helping people find passions/things they care about,
- giving people choices and learning through real-world scenarios.
We all agree that a majority of schooling is focused on memorizing random stuff. It's a fact that people learn more effectively by doing, not sitting in a classroom memorizing and theorizing. It only makes sense that most information needs to be placed into contexts for it to be any useful whatsoever (or stick in the first place), and school eliminates any context in most cases. Math is the perfect example of this.
Other than for the reason that you may appear ignorant in random social settings with mindless/pointless conversation, why do we have to learn all the math that we do, history, literature, chemistry, biology, etc.?
There are some very basic concepts that regular schools completely skip that would make all the difference. In my opinion we need classes (for example):
- dedicated to learning how one specifically learns,
- dealing with relating to people/relationships (it's really the main thing a lot of young people think/worry about),
- helping people find passions/things they care about,
- giving people choices and learning through real-world scenarios.
We all agree that a majority of schooling is focused on memorizing random stuff. It's a fact that people learn more effectively by doing, not sitting in a classroom memorizing and theorizing. It only makes sense that most information needs to be placed into contexts for it to be any useful whatsoever (or stick in the first place), and school eliminates any context in most cases. Math is the perfect example of this.
Other than for the reason that you may appear ignorant in random social settings with mindless/pointless conversation, why do we have to learn all the math that we do, history, literature, chemistry, biology, etc.?