7/4 people have trouble with fractions....
....wait a second
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Most Useless Topic In School?
Started by DotNetDemon, Mar 20 2013 03:54 PM
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Posted 15 April 2013 - 06:20 PM
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Some say that he knows 2 facts about ducks, and both of them are wrong. And that 61 years ago he accidentally introduced Her Majesty The Queen to a Greek racialist. All we know is, I'm going to the tower now to have my head cut off, and he is called The Stig.
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Posted 04 October 2013 - 02:54 PM
7/4 people have trouble with fractions....
....wait a second
175% Of people? Dang. 
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Posted 07 October 2013 - 03:22 PM
7/4 people have trouble with fractions....
....wait a second
Nani?
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Does this mean there's a 3/4 person out there somewhere? Or only 3 of those people had double the trouble? 
Yeah, dealing with fractions isn't -my- idea of a good time either. 
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Posted 07 October 2013 - 08:50 PM
Basically the idea behind the classes they make you take in school (beyond the subjects with obvious utility) is throwing a bunch of darts at the board and seeing what sticks. How can you know what you want to be if you don't yet know what's out there? (Yeah, we all think we know what we want to be in high school...)
It's depressing, though, to consider that some people sit through so many years of science classes and at the end of it all they still don't know the first thing about what science actually is (or perhaps more importantly what it isn't!)...
It's depressing, though, to consider that some people sit through so many years of science classes and at the end of it all they still don't know the first thing about what science actually is (or perhaps more importantly what it isn't!)...
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Posted 08 October 2013 - 12:29 PM
Basically the idea behind the classes they make you take in school (beyond the subjects with obvious utility) is throwing a bunch of darts at the board and seeing what sticks. How can you know what you want to be if you don't yet know what's out there? (Yeah, we all think we know what we want to be in high school...)
It's depressing, though, to consider that some people sit through so many years of science classes and at the end of it all they still don't know the first thing about what science actually is (or perhaps more importantly what it isn't!)...
Indeed. Public school doesn't care about the individual. In world with multiple intellgences (Kinstetic, Natural, Spatial-Visual, ect), every one is stuck on the same mass-production line. Nuerology is not homgenized, why education be? Actually we can blame John Dewey for a good portion of it. His worldview was so skewed and stuck in the 20th century that still hurts education today.
Science classes are a joke... Science is a lot of mental grunt work, not mere text-book skimming. You should do labs, you should apply the scientific method to real world phenomena, you should gather and synthesize data. For one thing math should be taught within the context of the sciences. Dewey helped seperate them for silly idealogical reasons.
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