There's a lot to be said about how the American education system fails to teach kids how to get by after high school but this dude is doing it in the edgiest and worst way possible, all the other shit you learn in school is important too, they just have to make room to teach kids how taxes and all that stuff works too.
[QUOTE=xfreak341xx;47073148]There's a lot to be said about how the American education system fails to teach kids how to get by after high school but this dude is doing it in the edgiest and worst way possible, all the other shit you learn in school is important too, they just have to make room to teach kids how taxes and all that stuff works too.[/QUOTE]
Not to mention a decent and increasing amount of schools already do mandate classes on finance, job searching, and foreign languages. And of course the basics of our political system has been a staple of history classes for as long as we've had them, seriously to not know the basics of your rights as defined in the Constitution you had to be asleep in every history lesson since pre-kindergarten, heck you had to be sleeping through the educational television your parents put on before you even started in school.
[QUOTE=asteroidrules;47073154]Not to mention a decent and increasing amount of schools already do mandate classes on finance, job searching, and foreign languages. And of course the basics of our political system has been a staple of history classes for as long as we've had them.[/QUOTE]
I also feel that some of these duties should be on your parents as well. Not that all parents are great examples of what you should be when you grow up, but obviously they can teach you basic things about your everyday life. I also feel like kids these days don't explore things on their own enough they just take whatever they're force fed and never look into anything.
[QUOTE=xfreak341xx;47073148]There's a lot to be said about how the American education system fails to teach kids how to get by after high school but this dude is doing it in the edgiest and worst way possible, all the other shit you learn in school is important too, they just have to make room to teach kids how taxes and all that stuff works too.[/QUOTE]
I did favor the message more than the song itself, but to be honest I can't really name anything I was taught in school that has been of any significance to me in the real world. Not past like 6th or 7th grade anyway.
After that I'd be given a handful of maybe 6-10 courses (14 by my final year) out of maybe 2-3 subjects would be genuinely interesting - and I ended up teaching myself those in my spare time instead much more effectively and quicker than I was learning it in class.
According to him in the comments when the song says "Don't stay in school" he's talking about the priorities rather than children. Dat clickbait title.
[QUOTE=Mattk50;47073785]According to him in the comments when the song says "Don't stay in school" he's talking about the priorities rather than children. Dat clickbait title.[/QUOTE]
It is not a clickbait title, get out.
If you are not using anything school taught you, then maybe you should exercise your intellect more.
Learning philosophy, history, the wonders of art, mathematics, science and language is (or should be) character building. It provides incentive to learn because it is actually interesting. I would have hated school if all they taught me was how to pay taxes, go shopping on a budget and how to hold down a shit job.
How low do your aspirations have to be to agree with this video?
his flow isn't bad for an edgy white kid
what he's saying is pretty silly though there are classes for almost everything he's saying the education system lacks
[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;47073853]Not in my high school.[/QUOTE]
go to college after
[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;47073853]Not in my high school.[/QUOTE]
And what would you like to learn in school?
I found a lot of stuff I learned in school useful in my degree
Mostly maths, because I do Engineering, but also skills I learned in English which help me to write reports etc.
A lot of people complain and say "when will I ever use trigonometry?", but I ended up using it all the time. Likewise, I could say "when will I ever use the information I learned in Geography?" but no doubt that was useful to people who study Geography at Uni.
School introduces you to the fundamentals of everything career-related. You specialize later (Uni/college) and do what you want with that information. I do agree there should be some "life skills" classes, but a lot of that information is taught by your parents.
[QUOTE=Trumple;47073878]I found a lot of stuff I learned in school useful in my degree
Mostly maths, because I do Engineering, but also skills I learned in English which help me to write reports etc.
A lot of people complain and say "when will I ever use trigonometry?", but I ended up using it all the time. Likewise, I could say "when will I ever use the information I learned in Geography?" but no doubt that was useful to people who study Geography at Uni.
School introduces you to the fundamentals of everything career-related. You specialize later (Uni/college) and do what you want with that information. I do agree there should be some "life skills" classes, but a lot of that information is taught by your parents.[/QUOTE]
You're right, a lot of that stuff is also not expansive enough to teach a whole syllabus on. Maths, science and Language are massive subjects. Everyday activities are not, and are frankly quite easy to learn by yourself.
[QUOTE=itisjuly;47073812]It is not a clickbait title, get out.[/QUOTE]
I meant the title of the song. (which also happens to be the thread title) The title is misleading, you think it's going to be a song about why you should quit school, but then it's not. Definition of clickbait right there.
It's like this guy wants to have school be a weird Wikipedia rather than an institution that teaches things that take time, collaboration, and guidance
Yeah, the things you learn in school are important, but i have to agree that other things should be taught at school too.
[QUOTE=Ricool06;47073834]If you are not using anything school taught you, then maybe you should exercise your intellect more.
Learning philosophy, history, the wonders of art, mathematics, science and language is (or should be) character building. It provides incentive to learn because it is actually interesting. I would have hated school if all they taught me was how to pay taxes, go shopping on a budget and how to hold down a shit job.
How low do your aspirations have to be to agree with this video?[/QUOTE]
Because learning philosophy, history, art, maths, science or language isn't interesting to everyone in the world? Out of all those, philosophy was the only one I actually cared about and took courses on, but the knowledge that I was going to fail 12 of my other courses ruined any motivation I had to keep up in one of the two I did care for. I liked learning history and maths for a while, but after year 6 I stopped caring about maths and I was learning more English through the internet and movies than I was in school. History was never interesting to me, I've not found any particular use in learning a third language, I don't want to learn complex mathematics because I don't need or care for it, and while science is interesting I don't have the passion to delve into it.
My aspirations are really high, but my education didn't teach me what [B][I]I[/I][/B] truly cared about. Psychology, philosophy and animation. Those were the 3 things I truly burned for. I took courses on all 3. Animation was a total failure since all we were taught was stop-motion, and I loved the other two courses but like I said, knowing I'd fail 12 others killed the motivation.
[QUOTE=Shark Cat;47073860]go to college after[/QUOTE]
I can't afford to since school didn't teach me how to earn money to pay for it.
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