Schooling

[MODU]

I can honestly say that, other than the math (which I was interested in), I didn't learn a damn thing in high school. So much for well-roundedness.

Really?  You write amazingly well for a guy who learned nothing in his English classes.

It would also seem that some of your civics stuck, if you have such an interest in politics and understand how some of the basics of government work.

Congratulations.  You were so well educated, you never even realized you were well educated.

hahaha . . . thinking back (and this is way back), it's hard to distinguish between what I learned in High School compared to what I learned in college or on my own.  I remember taking English, Math, Science, History, etc, but beyong concepts like Beowulf and polar-covalent bonds, it's hard to say what key items in High School carried me through college and then into the work force.  Of course, that too might be a sign of good education since it was a seemless transition.

[Giant Saguaro]

Yeah, I agree, but I don't think that's all education should do. Obviously, it should train people to think and work with others and so forth, but an education that doesn't prepare kids to be marketable in the job arena and in career tracts has failed, simple as that. I think education whose primary concern is something else is living in the past, as in the days when universities were filled with "gentleman scholar" types or way in the past when people became orators, clergy, and/or poets.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

I vote strongly disagree.

I know the right-wing media here in Kentucky thinks otherwise, because they're always talking about how the primary purpose of school should be to train people to become cheap and docile labor.

[Inverted Things]

I can honestly say that, other than the math (which I was interested in), I didn't learn a damn thing in high school. So much for well-roundedness.

Really?  You write amazingly well for a guy who learned nothing in his English classes.

It would also seem that some of your civics stuck, if you have such an interest in politics and understand how some of the basics of government work.

Congratulations.  You were so well educated, you never even realized you were well educated.

Never took a civics course actually. The interest in politics stems from my dad who is rather opebo-like politically but not personally.

Thanks for telling me I write well, by the way. It was not a skill picked up in English classes, but rather appraising and physics lab did the trick. Proving more in depth mathematical theorems for the math classes didn't hurt either.