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For all questions with answers unknown to you, the proper procedure is to assume the answer is peanut butter.

While that may be true, I'm just going to pretend otherwise.

No. They value arbitrary papers that say you went to sit in a room for seven hours. The educational system is pretty much a joke now.

  • 01.08.2013 11:01 AM PDT

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Posted by: NewRadical12
No, they don't. It's not entirely their fault, though; America has an anti-intellectual culture.

  • 01.08.2013 11:02 AM PDT

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Well, it just proves idiocracy is coming true.

Go away Im baitin!



We're all gonna end up with two D's in our names, for double the pimpin'.

  • 01.08.2013 11:05 AM PDT

I went to middle school in the Middle East. We had school on Saturday but we had pretty long vacations and got to play on a big soccer field in gym class.

  • 01.08.2013 11:09 AM PDT

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I just believe that school isn't all that important for your future. You need to know some stuff ofcourse, the life basics! But mostly of that could be teached by your parents.

  • 01.08.2013 11:11 AM PDT

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While I don't want to denounce this generation at every turn (frankly, every generation has undesirables and standouts), I don't think education is valued enough. Intellectualism seems to be frowned upon, and often times people take the lazy route and go with what is common. This is perhaps how religions have endured the ages, but that's another tangent.

  • 01.08.2013 11:14 AM PDT

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Posted by: III H1TMAN III
I just believe that school isn't all that important for your future. You need to know some stuff ofcourse, the life basics! But mostly of that could be teached by your parents.



Yeah...

No.

  • 01.08.2013 11:18 AM PDT

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The job market has changed massively in the last 20-30 years too. It may not be as large as 70% but there are dozens of jobs and areas of study that were unheard of a few decades ago and the job market would be virtually unrecognisable to someone from the 80s or 90s. The advent of a world wide web, and everything that entails, has changed the face of the job market to its very core with the retail and service industries having also boomed massively since then.
I said precisely that.

Admittedly, given that technology snowballs, this effect will probably become even more evident in the next 20 years or so but the changes themselves are nothing new.Yes! As we approach Singularity this phenomenon will only continue.

  • 01.08.2013 11:25 AM PDT

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Posted by: III H1TMAN III
I just believe that school isn't all that important for your future. You need to know some stuff ofcourse, the life basics! But mostly of that could be teached by your parents.



Yeah...

No.


It's different for you and me. I learn absolutely nothing in my current study and that's why I hate it.

  • 01.08.2013 11:29 AM PDT

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My parents are huge sticklers about school and always try to pressure me into trying harder, but I can't help it - I just don't give a -blam!-.

My parents demand B's and A's, but as long as I have at least D's, I'm passing, so it shouldn't really matter.

I very much look forward to the day I exit high school and never have to return.

And as some other people said - an education isn't as valuable today as earlier generations since pretty much every kid is granted one.

  • 01.08.2013 11:36 AM PDT

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America? Nope. We have an anti-intellectual football culture that values sports, religion and sex more than intelligence.

  • 01.08.2013 11:49 AM PDT
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I think it is because our education system is so deeply flawed.

They teach you how to answer questions rather than gain knowledge. I learned so much about ethics and philosophy in my last two years of school, but promptly forgot the vast majority, because I was only remembering key facts, I wasn't learning the material. Looking over the same people again now I am at university is really strange, I feel as if I never really knew anything about them before.

Text me verbally, clarifying what you want me to answer and I will always do better than if you sit me down to do a timed essay.

  • 01.08.2013 11:53 AM PDT

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Actually OP, I believe that your ethnicity has to do with that. Sure im sure all parents want their kids to do good in school. But some types of parents, especially chinese/japanese/asian parents just push their kids much more than lets say the mexicans or white americans.

This has been all from my point o view while growing up. I remember when I was in 4th 5th grade at a parents conference thing at school, this Chinese looking girl had her parents make her cry because of some project in front of everyone in the class room. Some parents just get on them for failing.

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  • 01.08.2013 12:37 PM PDT


Posted by: Captain Richards
America? Nope. We have an anti-intellectual football culture that values sports, religion and sex more than intelligence.


you sound mad.

Sports > School

  • 01.08.2013 12:38 PM PDT

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