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[-] LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Wow your message was delivered poorly, but there is a core concept hidden within it that I do agree with. Schools need to focus more on critical thinking skills rather than any particular topic. Because those can be applied to anything.

Ever since standardized testing rolled around school has become more about teaching kids to memorize something and to not try if they don't know and just move on rather than allowing them to get something wrong but engage in critical thinking.

Instead of memorizing random formulas in math class that you may or may not use in your daily life especially now that it's literally guaranteed that there's 15 calculators within 5 ft of you at all times including one in your pocket. It would be more useful to teach specific types of math that encourage critical thinking like say ROI calculations, something that literally everyone can and should be using in their daily lives for even just basic shopping but virtually nobody knows what that even means.

[-] bitchkat@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

That's what you got out of his comment? It seemed to be that he was promoting a job training curriculum rather than education.

[-] LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

No that's what I turned it into, the core part that I agreed with was that how we educate needs to change. I then took that and moved it to my concept on critical thinking skills being the most important thing

this post was submitted on 28 Dec 2024
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