We should be teaching subjects which will (A) ultimately be useful to as many people as possible and (B) exercise the brain as much as possible.
I'm inclined to think statistics and programming would fulfill these requirements better than calculus.
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> Here are a few, understanding and fixing a car, understanding music and playing music, art appreciation, literature and understanding the human condition and on and on.
High schoolers already spend a lot of time analyzing literature. I do think they should spend more time with other forms of art as well—why teach only literature criticism, when literature is just one of many art forms?
However, this work exercises your brain in a distinctly different way than mathematics, and I do think students should learn both.
I'm inclined to think statistics and programming would fulfill these requirements better than calculus.
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> Here are a few, understanding and fixing a car, understanding music and playing music, art appreciation, literature and understanding the human condition and on and on.
High schoolers already spend a lot of time analyzing literature. I do think they should spend more time with other forms of art as well—why teach only literature criticism, when literature is just one of many art forms?
However, this work exercises your brain in a distinctly different way than mathematics, and I do think students should learn both.