How Schools kill creativity
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- jfletcher0
ha, I totally get when the person at the grocery store can't subtract 8.60 from 10.00. That baffles me.
The basics are important to a degree, but how much do you really remember about geometry (I remember almost nothing). Granted geometry is beyond the basics, so I don’t think people need that as much.
The flip side may cause a bit more issues. What is people had to learn the basics of music, composition, type, dance. I think people would have a fit. You’d have parents saying how it was a huge waste of time... but only because they have learned it is, not because it actually is. The ability to think beyond what you were told as a kid can be pretty rough for a lot of people. If all of the sudden you think what you know is wrong. The earth was flat for a long time :)
I’d also love to see world religion taught in school, but I doubt that will happen in the US for some time.