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What should schools be teaching?
This may or may not have already been covered in a different thread, but I couldn't find said thread.
From what I've been hearing recently (and from a while back) there seems to a bit of a consensus among students that the topics that are covered in school aren't something that they should actually be learning. This often covers mathematics and science, with most of them claiming that advanced mathematics and scientific theories teach them nothing that they will use in their lifetime.
There also seems to be an agreement that countries should begin to make a required curriculum to teach classes that will show them how to live in the real world. This usually extends to things such as raising a child and paying taxes (there is also an argument that they should teach students how the stock market works and how they can participate in it).
What seemed to really spark this idea was a song written by a youtuber who's channel name is aboyinaband. The song is titled "Don't Stay in School" (The title of the song refers to the idea that topics that aren't practical shouldn't stay in school, not the actual students). I will not bother to post a YouTube link to the song, but if you are curious you can simply search it up on YouTube. But I will provide the lyrics below.
Now. Here is the debate. Is what people are saying true? Are subjects such as Advanced Mathematics and Science practical for use in the real world? Should it become a required curriculum to learn how pay taxes and live in the "Real World"? Discuss.
Note: I did not provide any sources for discussion due to the fact that most of the sources I found were incredibly bias or not credible.
From what I've been hearing recently (and from a while back) there seems to a bit of a consensus among students that the topics that are covered in school aren't something that they should actually be learning. This often covers mathematics and science, with most of them claiming that advanced mathematics and scientific theories teach them nothing that they will use in their lifetime.
There also seems to be an agreement that countries should begin to make a required curriculum to teach classes that will show them how to live in the real world. This usually extends to things such as raising a child and paying taxes (there is also an argument that they should teach students how the stock market works and how they can participate in it).
What seemed to really spark this idea was a song written by a youtuber who's channel name is aboyinaband. The song is titled "Don't Stay in School" (The title of the song refers to the idea that topics that aren't practical shouldn't stay in school, not the actual students). I will not bother to post a YouTube link to the song, but if you are curious you can simply search it up on YouTube. But I will provide the lyrics below.
Song Lyrics
Note: I did not provide any sources for discussion due to the fact that most of the sources I found were incredibly bias or not credible.
Valterain1 was defeated by hermaphrodite on Oct 17, 2015.
Sciences are not entirely useful for a person's future but they encourage people to think which I think is a good thing. Also it would be very hard to start learning sciences at an older age so it's good that they teach it in primary schools and secondary schools so that people know enough of it to decide wether they should or shouldn't continue studying it depending on what sort of work they want to do when they're older.
But maths is pretty much required for everything.
They should teach trades and that sort of stuff in secondary schools imo.
But maths is pretty much required for everything.
They should teach trades and that sort of stuff in secondary schools imo.
Do you honestly think that anybody would be able to remember the stock market and taxes in highschool if people can't even remember long division over one summer? I highly doubt that it would be worth teaching things like that. You have to learn some things yourself. Reality is one of them.
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Originally Posted by qukslice
Do you honestly think that anybody would be able to remember the stock market and taxes in highschool if people can't even remember long division over one summer? I highly doubt that it would be worth teaching things like that. You have to learn some things yourself. Reality is one of them.
Just because some people won't learn it doesn't mean that you shouldn't give everybody an oppurtunity to. Some people may really enjoy it and become successful.
Originally Posted by raaage
Sciences are not entirely useful for a person's future but they encourage people to think which I think is a good thing. Also it would be very hard to start learning sciences at an older age so it's good that they teach it in primary schools and secondary schools so that people know enough of it to decide wether they should or shouldn't continue studying it depending on what sort of work they want to do when they're older.
But maths is pretty much required for everything.
They should teach trades and that sort of stuff in secondary schools imo.
But that's the thing. Math may be required, but a common claim is that High School math isn't something that you'll ever use in life. Such as Calculus.
Originally Posted by qukslice
Do you honestly think that anybody would be able to remember the stock market and taxes in highschool if people can't even remember long division over one summer? I highly doubt that it would be worth teaching things like that. You have to learn some things yourself. Reality is one of them.
No. I don't. But, if all of these people complain that they don't know how to do taxes when they reach adulthood, then surely they must care about it passionately? But, plenty of schools already have classes such as economics that can teach those things. If people want to learn it, then that class is usually there for them. The problem is, it's not an elective that schools are required to offer. Which causes problems, because the people who do care about making it out there in the real world may not have the classes in their school.
Valterain1 was defeated by hermaphrodite on Oct 17, 2015.
