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i learned in kindergarden! ...seriously! do you think that, at some point, the educational aspects of school are useless? that, you just acheive a maximum intake point, and then, the rest of the classes serve no purpose? is the best aspect of school the forced socialization, rather than the education?
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i think you do learn a lot in school when you're little... but kindergarten you should have some of those skills before you get there. kgart.i think is just for socialization and getting kids used to being near their peers. theyve gotta mature with the age group. there's a kid who's gonna be in my class who is really smart but he should be in first grade. he doesnt play well with the other kids and he still acts like a baby when the others only have their moments. he still needs another year to get on a par with the other kids maturity wise.
some educational things are fun that the kids learn in school like dinosaurs never flew or lived in water like we thought. Or how about when you learned about vinegar and baking soda for volcanoes? they'll most likey retain that forever. so some parts of the primary grades are needed for education and socialization. But high school is pure crap! if you go to college youve gotta relearn that crap. and if you dont go to college what are you gonna use that stuff for anyway?
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difficult kind said:
But high school is pure crap! if you go to college youve gotta relearn that crap. and if you dont go to college what are you gonna use that stuff for anyway?
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completely agreed!
all you do in high school is "prepare" for college, and consistantly hear about how "this crap wont pass there" or "in college, EVERYone is smarter than you" ... all that stuff. so, constantly, you're doing all this work, to prepare yourself for.... NOTHING!! college, if anything, is an education on boobs. its an education on living life without your parents, making (buying) your own dinner, making new friends, responsibilities, priorities, etc...
no (little) educational value is gained from college, and none is gained in high school, as you're just doing prep work for college.
the introduction to basic sciences, like dffcltknd said, and basic maths, nouns verbs... thats all done in the early grammar school years. and thats the only thing everyone can remember -- and benefit from!
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I'd say it depends on what you study. Probably not gonna develop a great grasp of a subject like Physics or Chemistry or Sociology or Philosophy in KG or grade school. Maybe you guys aren't/didn't study the right subjects or have the right instructors. It's never to late to start learning again.
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All I ever needed to know, I learned in Kindergarten
Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand box at nursery school.
These are the things I learned. Share everything. Play fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours. Say you are sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some and draw some and paint and sing and dance and play and work everyday.
Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out in the world, watch for traffic, hold hands, and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the plastic cup? The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why. We are like that.
And then remember that book about Dick and Jane and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all: LOOK! Everything you need to know is there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation, ecology, and politics and the sane living.
Think of what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap. Or we had a basic policy in our nation and other nations to always put things back where we found them and clean up our own messes. And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.
--- Robert Fulghum
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......Remember the little seed in the plastic cup? The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why........
Until they bother to study biology and physics. Gravity. Photosynthesis. Cell division.
Actually, that was a cool book. But, in the end, a far to simple take on life.
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