99% of people will never read Shakespeare again, or remember a damn thing about 17th century europe, or play volleyball, or play their band instrument, or program in Java, etc...
The point of learning basically everything past literacy - You learn to practice learning (and hell, you only become literate to allow other learning).
To find the 1% who might actually like something enough to pursue it.
Yes, yes, people never use calculus again.
ReplyDeleteBut they do problem solve and do math.
99% of people will never read Shakespeare again, or remember a damn thing about 17th century europe,
or play volleyball, or play their band instrument, or program in Java, etc...
The point of learning basically everything past literacy -
You learn to practice learning (and hell, you only become literate to allow other learning).
To find the 1% who might actually like something enough to pursue it.