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[–]SundogsPlace[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think schools should have 4 primary categories to teach, Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and 'law/govt./contracts'. Once these 4 basics are learned, then off to work, trades, or other; perhaps more academic studies.

Our schools today, cannot seem to teach the above 3 all that well, and the 4th??? Give me a break, in school, or out of school, we all deal with contracts, and govt.; yet it's hardly if at all taught.

Change my mind if you think I'm wrong, but if we went back to the above 4 areas of curricula, we'd be further ahead than we are now, and for a lot less money....

[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You wouldn't combine reading and writing? How could they be taught in isolation? They're interdependant.

Next, arithmetic generally depends a logical understanding of the former; similar learning beyond basic addition/subtraction.

Law is a protectionist discipline. It's essentially an foreign culture/language with it's own rituals and dogma that is designed to prevent ordinary citizens from having independent access to justice. Someone else gets to interpret the facts for you; similar to religious issues in the middle age. It's definitely independent.

Where would you include the sciences? Arts? Humanities? That's what a visiting Martian would be interested in learning about. That's what makes us human (less so the sciences, as they'd have a thing or two to teach us). :-/