Originally Posted by CAMMYTHESPEEDSCOOTER
Did apple really just say make math an elective...fucking kek. That one statement just made me stop reading everything else he had to say.
I never said "math should be an elective" most basic math needs to be taught. But once you begin to delve into trigonometry and more complex versions of math, it no longer becomes an essential thing to know. Therefore, for those who still want to continue to learn it, it can be an elective.
But I'm not going to continue to argue, you're flat out throwing insults out of nowhere. I may have called someone idiotic but he misquoted, and based a whole post on a false quote from me.
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He may have not even tried to quote me, but was definitely blowing something I said way out of proportion and interpreting it in a way that I did not mean it.
Last edited by apple123; Jul 17, 2015 at 08:23 AM.
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Curious aren't you.
Many (I'd say most but I have no statistics to prove this at hand) young men and women in high school have absolutely zero clue what they'll end up doing for a living. You can't possibly know what you didn't need to know until much later in life, and at the very least learning something as functional as complicated math makes your everyday math that much easier to do.
If you're counting on 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18 year olds to confidently choose what they should learn and stick with a program that'll lead to their career, all you cause is great depression as they hit their 20's and realize they want to do something completely different. So yes, the "liberal arts" approach may lead to some "useless" information; however, it teaches you all the possibilities of things you could pursue interest and mastery in. It also prepares you for the most amount of possibilities. Because for something like Engineering, you'd be pretty screwed to decide "Oh yeah I want to do that" if you elected not to take pre-calculus in high school and you're just now catching up in college.
If you're counting on 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18 year olds to confidently choose what they should learn and stick with a program that'll lead to their career, all you cause is great depression as they hit their 20's and realize they want to do something completely different. So yes, the "liberal arts" approach may lead to some "useless" information; however, it teaches you all the possibilities of things you could pursue interest and mastery in. It also prepares you for the most amount of possibilities. Because for something like Engineering, you'd be pretty screwed to decide "Oh yeah I want to do that" if you elected not to take pre-calculus in high school and you're just now catching up in college.
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The point of teaching kids a lot of crap in HS is mainly so they can see what they are good at. You aren't giving any meaningful knowledge to the kids who barely pass their classes, that's why a passing grade requires a lot higher % on tests in Uni than in HS. It's all there to filter people and prepare the better minds for Uni like I've said a few weeks ago.
How is this still going on by the way? Most of you are still in HS, therefore your opinion matters jack shit in the topic.
How is this still going on by the way? Most of you are still in HS, therefore your opinion matters jack shit in the topic.
Last edited by ynvaser; Jul 17, 2015 at 07:07 PM.
Why is a high shcoolers opinion on what schools should be teaching less important than that of someone older never mind "matters jack shit"?
If anything Id say that at this point it affects them more so their say is perhaps more important
If anything Id say that at this point it affects them more so their say is perhaps more important
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