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Originally Posted by roachboy
i'm a little confused about the premise of the thread.
how can knowing more rather than less be a bad thing?
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oops i guess i should've throught it through more before posting. i meant the premise to be something like this: say you have two hours of class a day. i would rather use both of those hours to get a formal education on something that i'm good at/like doing rather than one hour in that class and one hour in another class that i have no interest in.
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Originally Posted by roachboy
students are tracked already based on often quite crude measurements from elementary school forward. what would the point be of more of that?
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because they're
crude requirements and should be made better rather than left to fester
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1. high schools (and before) do not demand enough of the students. they do not in the main teach the basic skills required for university work---instead they teach the ridiculous tests mandated by no child left behind and other such nonsense.
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dont you think this comes from a lack of willing teachers? if someone decides that teaching is the route they want to take and and they track into it, they'd teach necessary essentials common to any technical trade.
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2, there really should be some kind of non-military national service that kids go do at the age of 18-19. something that gets them away from school-as-normal idea and gives them a chance to think a bit about what they might want. and god knows there's a lot of things that they could be turned loose on, much of which would probably do a lot of good. all that'd be required is for---say----the national security state to be dismantled and military expenditures knocked down from their present levels of eating about a third (or more) of total federal outlays (depending on how you estimate the costs of both unnecessary wars and the maybe third in libya). but i digress.
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i agree we spend alot on our military but considering how much and the value of what we have to protect, its worth it.
/threadjack