Rant: Is that common to think the academic subjects taught in school are a waste of time?

Hi all,

I am Chinese. I think education is waste of time. The teachers I encounter were not good at teaching, at least far inferior than Google and Youtube that make them almost worthless. Also, the subject I learnt a mostly useless. Like the math most people work in work is not more than arithmetic. If they need advance math, they can learn on the fly.

Also, in where I live, people become teacher because it is stable, not because they academically excel. They become teacher at the time they finish their undergrad, which mean they have never work in corporates. They often give me the impression they don't have real world experience on doing things, let alone excelling in surviving the corporate world.

One element of education be teaching students to learn useful real world skill, but what I see is that the material in school curriculum is worthless, and taught by not-very-competent people. It scares me to think of that they are teaching students. It is like the blind leading the blind.

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Submitted November 08, 2023 at 01:15AM by Ashamed-External-330 https://ift.tt/dInVe4c