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by DUNNO on September 14th, 2006

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Why do kids have to do work in school that they will never use after they graduate?

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  • by Astaroth on September 15th, 2006

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    "Modern" school education is based on generalization, meaning that everyone has to learn a little about everything..which is supposed to help once you decide what are you going to specifically learn as a career.

    I personally think that they should, thru testing and measurement of your specific capabilities, determine your unique potential at a young age and start preparing you in a career when you are a kid.

    Based on comments: This has nothing to do with Ethics, Morals and Society...I'm referring to actual academic subjects. For example...why pack somebody with more than arithmetics, is he is not going to pursue a career based on Math.

    But well I'm not a psychologist or padagogic professional and I assume they have a reason to do it the way it is.

    Most of the things we do in life we do them because they tell us to do it and we comply, the benefit of your compliance is to live in a society that makes it easier to survive (!?)

    If you do not like society conventions (school, have a family, raise your kids, go to church, work 8 hours, pay your taxes, pay your mortgage, etc) then you can always travel to somewhere in Africa and hunt for a living. If you wanna have your credit card, go to the disco and have a 50" wide-screen TV, then comply.

    Such is life.

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    • Measuring children to pretare them for their future careers? Jeez, I hope this never happens! Do you really want schools where all they do is turn children into little worker robots? School prepares you for your whole life, not only for your work.

      Lucas_

      by Lucas_ on September 16th, 2006

    • Excuse me...but the way the system works, 99.9% of the people have to work to live. And your whole life revolves around the success you have economically speaking. And today..most people are working robots.

      Astaroth

      by Astaroth on September 16th, 2006

    • I'd rather do the job I want to do or am happiest doing, not the job I'm best suited for. Maybe it isn't the most efficient system but it works for me.

      Darkling

      by Darkling on September 18th, 2006

    • This reduces education to being for jobs only. It isn't. You learn how to function in a society, as well. You learn about your global community. You use that information every time you vote (at least I hope you do).

      AntigoneRising

      by AntigoneRising on October 13th, 2006

    • Antigone is right...but this could be taught in Ethics, Morals and Society....the question is (I guess) referred to actual academic subjects.

      Astaroth

      by Astaroth on November 5th, 2006

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