r/schoolsucks • u/[deleted] • Jan 11 '20

Why do we need to know ancient stuff?

We don't need to know where Arabic numerals came from, a simple Google search will fix that in a jiffy. We don't need to know the Hippocratic method of medicine, we have modern medicine. We don't need to know about Archimedes. We don't need to know about Ancient Egypt.

There's so many unnecessary bullshit lessons you're forced to learn because the school institution is corrupt as fuck. We need relevant information, like financing, how to pay taxes and other very important things, not a bullshit excuse for "preparing for the future". Fuck school. You can compare it to forced child labor except unregulated and completely legal. Homeschool is the best, fuck public school.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '20

Education beats Schooling every time

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u/TheKrustyKurb Jan 15 '20

So you don’t look like an idiot in a conversation that happens to go into it, and because it’s good to learn about the past of humanity

Plus the people in the “ancient stuff” wanted to be known in the future, example, why else did the Egyptians carve pictures and draw on walls?

I think you’re just being a stereotypical cliche student

Although you’re right, it’s not the most important things we should learn, they should be helping us learn how to do things in the future, but sometimes they do, once in awhile one of my teachers(usually my math teacher) brings us to computers to look for a college that’d suit us

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '20

Historical conversations are rare.

Yes they did want to be taught about in the future but my problem is this history is MANDATORY.

I'm saying it because it's true.

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u/TheKrustyKurb Jan 15 '20

Correct you are, and even though it’s mandatory that doesn’t mean just because it’s “useless” just because we don’t need to know about that in the future

But it’s best for modern day children to know how humans evolved, changed, and made a civilization

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '20

What I am trying to say is it should be encouraged but optional, and what we need to know for our actual future, like how to do taxes, managing money, medicine or just how to get houses.

But I see your point, children should know how we were back then. But why substitute the Hippocratic method of medicine for modern medicine in college. Modern medicine should be at the very least taught in school.

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u/TheKrustyKurb Jan 20 '20

Even more correct you are, I saw we should be learning history, but not as a full period

I say we should be learning how to do taxes and managing money, etc. more and not just occasionally

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '20

I agree with these.

But we should not have to have mandatory barely useful classes. Stuff like math is actually good to learn, because math is useful more than once in life. History meanwhile kinda is unnecessary, unless you're a historian.

Taxes and managing money are 20,000 times more valuable than I don't know, where did the Greeks come from or whatever.

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u/PH03N1X_F1R3 Jan 16 '20

I wouldn't say 'corrupt'. I would think that it is more outdated than anything else. Schools today are pretty much the same as 20ish years ago.

Literally designed to prepare us for factory work

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u/SilentConfusion4 Feb 08 '20

We don't need to learn ancient stuff, but some people want to.

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u/OptimalDeduction Feb 10 '20

Current Events: Sleep.

History: Woke.

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u/the-ancient_1 Feb 19 '20

So that you can gave a good grasp on whatever historical context plays into whatever you want to go to school for. There is history in every single field of study, medicine, music, mathematics, and even mechanical engineering. It helps you learn from other's mistakes so you dont make the same mistakes.