Re:U.S. Economy Shrinks at 4.8% Pace, Signaling Start of Rec...
by munificent on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @01:25PM
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> we spent half the second semester learning about different kinds of whales.
The point of most of that is not to teach you about whales (though whales are cool). It's to teach you:
* How to read and process written material.
* How to organize your thoughts and write grammatically correct sentences.
* The moral value that science is useful and nature is important to preserve.
It's the same reason they still teach cursive. Cursive matters fuck-all, but training fine motor skills in general is very useful and cursive is just a semi-arbitrary means to that end.
The point of most of that is not to teach you about whales (though whales are cool). It's to teach you:
* How to read and process written material.
* How to organize your thoughts and write grammatically correct sentences.
* The moral value that science is useful and nature is important to preserve.
It's the same reason they still teach cursive. Cursive matters fuck-all, but training fine motor skills in general is very useful and cursive is just a semi-arbitrary means to that end.