On a related note having 6 different classes a day 8 hours total times 5 days a week made it impossible to learn properly.
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I took the minimum amount of science classes in highschool. Lack of science education is less of a problem than teaching you how to sort through bullshit and analytical thinking. I basically think that our school system needs to stop focusing so hard on teaching things from the textbooks in an ever-changing world that's cherry picked from an endless wealth of knowledge and focus more on learning how to be skeptical and check various sources and such. In school it seemed like research was always just a backseat to the goal, instead of the goal itself.
Ngl I like learning from textbooks now that I am out of highschool. I learn faster too.
And weirdest part is that I still can't study through my highschool textbooks.
I am geniuenly wondering if they were just simply terrible at picking good textbooks and overall using them to teach.
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I don't agree with this. The stuff written by, for example, the "vaccines cause autism" people can sound as sophisticated and authoritative as any textbook. A high-school education isn't going to help someone judge it according to its merits. Thus the problem is a collapse of trust in authority rather than a lack of basic knowledge, because ultimately an ordinary person can only decide to trust the scientific consensus without meaningfully verifying it.
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My highschool chemistry teacher almost got kicked out of her university for trying to pipette hydrochloric acid with her mouth. That's who I want teaching chemistry, the crazy woman who knows what it means to fuck up, bad. Not some honor roll, life plan having baby removed.
One of my high school's two chemistry teachers was missing a hand... due to an (undisclosed) chemistry incident.
We made some ether in my HS chemistry lab for a lab exercise, and I was goofing around pretending to inhale it but accidentally did get some in, and I got a loopy dizzy feeling for a minute or two.
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that's the same people who later get to helm companies and say "who the fuck needs market research when you have the force of will"
AI is a great idea and everyone in our company must use it!
it's a great idea if all you need to do is to compile the research you already did into variety of content types. my current fave is notebookLM because i'm uploading all the reports from other companies and sift through them somewhat faster. other than that - it is basically a linkedin post generator.
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I always found science and history interesting even though i hated school.
Maths though, i always resented "you wont always have a calculator" … but now as im older i imagine kids today having a similar idea about "AI" and i can see that not ending well for anyone.
As a kid I always thought a lot of stuff taught was like, duh, so obvious. It took being thrown in the adult world to see hmm... I guess... not obvious enough???