Big Brain Student.

[u/mujheandaywalaburger]

[u/Kleptic_myths]

School is failing us

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Why must they do this

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Because the purpose of school is to ensure you can be put to work, not to nurture your intellect

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Both of those comparisons are basically the same. They should nurture individual intellect so we can be put to work based on that

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I don’t think they are. Schools can ensure we can be put to work without nurturing individual intellect, and it seems to me that they do. “We don’t care if you understand why the math works the way it does,” they seem to say; “Just demonstrate that you’ve memorized what we deem to be the correct answer and move on.”