On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 07:45 -0400, tfreeman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > The academic load at school is not just to teach you the fundamentals, > > the core bits of knowledge about mathematics or sentence structure or > > turning wood on a lathe. The academic mix is to teach you about pooling > > knowledge, to be able to associate dissimilar knowledge sets, to > > (hopefully) think critically. > > > > Learning, say, geometry might not *seem* to help you directly in your > > job, but every time you want to cut a board or navigate a curve in a > > car, you will be more likely to be successful if you understand the > > concepts of measuring and calculating the curves and angles. > > > > School is about learning to think, not silos of knowledge. I am > > appalled that no one ever taught you that. > > Sadly, in my humble experience, the simple majority of people take school > as only training for their future job. That may have something to do with the fact that the schools are set up to indoctrinate you into the idea of getting a job. As opposed to being an entrepreneur. LX -- °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° A revolving concretion of earthy or mineral matter accumulates no congeries of small, green bryophytic plant. Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
