I don't get it /sci/, why do schools force everyone to waste

>>8865837
Because of Prussians.

>>8865837
The schools job isnt to teach you everything practical you need to know. Its purpose is to teach you know to learn for yourself retard.

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>>8865837

Because it's good to understand how the world woks.

Our current understanding of what makes people smart is limited, though one thing is a apparent - Learning a lot of shit generally works. Doesn't matter what, just the act of learning different things improves your ability to learn. I've been taking in raw information since I was a child, just reading encyclopedias wherever I could find them.

As to how they decided which subjects are important, it's mostly just leftovers from public schools' historical roots in trying to create functional factory workers.

>>8865837
School isn't job training.

>>8865837
Because schools aren't meant to create robots made for a single purpose you shitwit.
Schools are supposed to enrich you as a human being. For starters you don't actually know what particular tidbit of information is gonna come in handy in the future, so the goal is to have a vast pool of information under your belt and life will decide what comes in handy.

>>8865851
the majority don't do that very well lol

>>8865875
the US atleast produces the smartest students in the world and also some of the worst. Its really a sink or swim type of system

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>>8865851
>Its purpose is to teach you to pass standardized tests

FTFY

>>8865837
image being a math god after 12 years of STEM training with absolutely no reading or writing skills
oh and you also have no clue at all how or why government and law works

>>8865900
this. I've taken many classes i dont remember shit about because all i did was pass the tests. Without genuine interest in a field you are not gonna get any further than this level of mediocrity that is so instilled in schools

>>8865837
Because when you're that young you lack the foresight to choose to study something worthwhile and stick to it. If they teach you a wide range of things when you're old enough to start to specialise in what your study you will have the basic knowledge to understand the things you're trying to learn in that field.

>>8865907
Literally me. I doubt I could even do basic things outside of stem. I don't even know where the pacific ocean is.