Re: Fucking education! How does it work?
Two of the most important abilities I have for navigating the "real world" are resourcefulness (knowing how to find and assess information) and critical thinking/problem solving. Being a good reader is the most important basic skill, in my opinion, because if you can read and comprehend well, you can learn most anything you want by, you know, reading.
I have not found any use for more than basic math/algebra, but I am not an engineer or scientist or anything like that, so my real world experiences should not be any kind of benchmark.
All that being said, we have a real issue here in that the actual goals of our educational system are not well defined by anyone, so all proposed or implemented remedies are just shots in the dark. It's like they're hoping one of the solutions will somehow identify the actual problem rather than vice versa.
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