It's about vetting your sources and apportioning resources based upon perceived value, something our traditional educations beat into us, sorry. Also I disagree with your first premise, that you rely on schools to educate your, putative, children into being productive members of society. Give me your children and I control your future, smh, history it just keeps repeating on me like bad italian food.
What is the point of education then if not to help develop minds into becoming productive adults? Early exposure to the fundamentals of all forms of education is needed, the last 4 years of school should be geared more towards educating children into becoming functioning adults. Considering that the average age of graduat a high school graduate is 18 how is a new formed adult expected to survive when when they know literally nothing about what it takes to be an adult?
I did attempt to understand it. It took me about ten seconds to understand it. He is far from the first to say it. It is age old and almost everybody said it better than he did. And while I may have jumped to conclusions (by not watching it through), my initial impression of this guy's take were totally accurate. But even now, after many, many posts, you fail to see my point.
Seriously, if you have life problems like paying your taxes and job skill shit there are a whole lot of places to turn. You can learn taxes in a day. We can point you in the right direction.
A productive society needs to be full of people who share common values of right and wrong, good and bad - or it seems to me that this is the case. Those very basic decisions are taught not inherited. Education sets this into motion.
Yeah, I know that many people don't have the skills that you speak of. But they should be taught at home and in life. School is a different thing. School is education. Not training. And educated mind can do anything... Training can render you obsolete at the next turn in the road.
This sort of reminds me of the fact that a local jurisdiction shut down school for two days on account of cold? Why cold? We went to fucking school when it was 20 below! What has changed? The most loudly repeated justification was that "some people can't afford coats for their kids." What?! Are you fucking serious? Remember the Great Depression? Nobody could afford coats for their kids and they didnt have smart phones either. Oddly, education here was actually often quite good. Even before Gore Tex. Go to a library and read a newspaper from the 1890s. I think you might be shocked to find how far our standards have fallen in comparison.
Education is important. You can't make up for developing a human mind when it should be developed. If it were up to me I would have had them teach you Latin too.
And why can't it be both? Not everyone has capable parents that can teach their children. Furthermore how are we expected to learn the fundamentals of adulthood from people who were never taught them self?
Life experience? Nobody share's the same experiences in life. Even people who went through the exact same thing will come out with a different experience.
Trial and error? That method doesn't really apply to a lot of things that are bound to happen in life.
One of the things that was mentioned in the video, (and why I think you are wrong to write it off so quickly) is that we are not taught things such as CPR and how to identify warning signs of basic illness or mental illnesses. This is life saving situations that people are not taught because it is deemed more important to know quadratic formula (Something that I was taught every year in school, but couldn't remember because I have yet to use it the 10 years since I've graduated).
You shouldn't expect anyone that doesn't love you to shove everything you need to succeed in life down your throat. U need to be a hunter...u can't be sitting with your mouth open all pissed off because no one taught you what you think you should know .. I think college is when you can learn whatever the fuck you think is important. ..All the other schooling before that is just a basic foundation..
Not to succeed, but to survive in today's society.
My education did not offer me any college entry courses, did not offer any information on how to apply for college, did not offer any information on how to scout for college, did not offer any courses on understanding student loans, no courses on applying for grants.
My mother is a walmart employee, my dad was a truck driver so they did not have the information necessary to assist in this.
Because of all this I ended up going to a scam of an online college, to naive to realise what was happening. Student loans are not something that are really forgiving on the "trial and error" method. The 15 collections agencies that keep calling me are proof of that.
Now I said this before, and you've ignored it every time. So I ask you to think about what I'm saying and respond.
A proper education is not forgotten because of lack of use.
If you disagree with that statement then please explain to me why, also if you could explain how a non-practical subject that will be forgotten before use is in anyway considered proper education.
Oh man I hate illiterate assholes. Read a book and fuck off.
Very well thought out point of view. Now could you please present it on an intellectual level or would you prefer to remain looking like an ignorant hypocrite with no valid argument to add to a debate?
