RE: School Is Designed To Keep You Stupid
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The bell is the most important thing in school.
Lol, you are not wrong. Compliance was key when I was in school as well. The mandatory standing for the pledge of allegiance was kind of indoctrination but we were just so accustomed to it that nobody ever questioned it or other things that were done back in the 80's and 90's. I would say that we didn't really mind either but we also didn't know any different.
I saw a meme the other day that said "day 4527 of not needing to find the area of a rhombus!"
Sadly, I don't think that much has changed. I sometimes get to see the homework of my friends' kids and it is the same ol' crap that never gets used in the actual world and in the meantime kids are graduating with zero idea of how to do their taxes or build anything, or cook anything, or grow anything. At least back in "my day" we had a few shop classes and home economics where we would learn the basics of being a human. Those are probably all gone now due to "gender discrimination" or other such bullcrap.
Shop class has been discontinued for "insurance" reasons.
And, i do use all my trigonometry when making cabinets without 90° corners.
But, even though i know exactly what calculus is good for, i just use the pre-worked out formulas for beam load computations.
How many school kids, do you know, that have been taught to kill, clean and cook a chicken?
to answer your last question my guess would be zero. Fortunately for me I had grandparents that had a farm and when mom and dad went on vacation they were my long-term babysitters and I was forced to learn all of these things. I was young enough that once I got over the initial shock I learned very quickly. The killing part of it was tough for me and likely still would be today, but even back in those days the methods of execution were about as humane as you can imagine.