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.