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How true. Beyond the basics, we should be leaving some classes (like geometry, trig, calculus, physics) for those who want to pursue a career that would actually use the information.
I was in high school from 1963 to 1968 and I was in a science-maths oriented program. But back in those days, we were having also some accounted lessons, history, geography, biology etc..
We were learning how to do the income taxe reports and even how to do a check.
Today checks are not use that much but I remember one of my cousin then at university and she didn't know how to write a check.
All you can learn in your teenage times can one day be useful.
I was glad I had trigonometry classes because I was having a summer job for a suveayor to do his drawings and trigonometry was very useful.
As an artist all those maths I learned were very handy too.
Pat - Absolutely.
JiEL - Knowledge is power.
This is a truth. I do wish my high school had prepared me for the world. We never talked checkbooks. We never talked about credit cards. They never actually dealt with us like we were going to be fully functional adults.
upton - They preferred you to be just a mindless cog.
Taxes are easy. Understanding parallelograms help you build straight.
When I was in high school it was still during the Cold War. It seems they wanted us all to grow up to be good little cold warriors. When the Soviets launched the first spacecraft before the Americans did, our country panicked and decided that they needed to teach everyone advanced math so that we wouldn't get behind the Soviets in anything. So I was a guinea pig with all the new math that came out and I was miserable. Nor did school in those days give any students special help. In high school we were never prepared for the adult world either. We just got more math to help in the cold war effort. I wish they had taught me accounting. That would've been useful. But the stuff I was taught and worked so very hard to learn wasn't anything I ever used afterward. But I guess we won the Cold War.
acad - *chuckle*
Anon@12:28am - Wow, what you said makes total sense!
Right?! Why was this NEVER discussed?! Sines & Cosines, yes but never something I was actually going to NEED in my everyday life!
Thanks, Rick!
Jimbo - I had to looked up sines & cosines and it made my head hurt.
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