“Came back to our small town work as a bookkeeper until he recently retired.
He would be the first to tell you that on his job he never used the algebra, geometry, chemistry, and biology he excelled at in high school.”
What is your point?
‘What is your point?’
his point seems rather obvious, does it not...? that schools hamstring students by forcing everyone too far into into a common curriculum, with no thought given to individual abilities (or lack of same)...
by way of explanation I use the course that caused me to fantasize about offing myself to get my father off my back about bad report cards: Plane Geometry...in what sane world does someone not in a hard science career path need to master the arcana of Euclidian theorems, corollaries and proofs...? and yet, Plane Geometry was a required course in a college prep curriculum...
‘but it teaches you to think,’ you say; true enough, but so did every other course I took, including those I found conducive to my abilities, so what special learning was I afforded by being forced to endure such technical minutiae to the point of failure...?
**What is your point?**
That many jobs don’t require the one size fits all college prep lineup.