What should be taught in Schools?

[Gustaf]

While I haven't followed your debate it seems to me that your argument seems to be that schools should explain the point of learning something before trying to teach it? While I agree with that I would say that a fundamental problem here is that people have opposing views on this. Most people, I believe, want to see what kind of bearing a certain piece of knowledge has on their own lives, especially present, before they're willing to learn it. I, on the other hand, want to see what kind of point in a more intellectual sense there is to a piece of knowledge. The problem lies largely in the fact that the lives of most teenagers require little to no knowledge on anything an most are too dumb and/or short-sighted to care abuot the distant future, and hence uninterested in learning things. That is why drills and grades are needed to make kids emerge from their teens with at least some shreds of knowledge.