Why do the majority of teenagers and people in general commonly share the mindset that math and other school subjects are useless and they will never be used in life?
Why do the majority of teenagers and people in general commonly share the mindset that math and other school subjects...
Bentley Anderson
Tyler Russell
little understanding of how the world works
Jordan Stewart
teenagers are literally retarded. I think the hormone imbalances kick their IQs in the nuts or some shit, because it is the stupidest demographic on this green earth.
>t. edgy teenager trying to appear superior to his own kind
Hudson Reed
Because they are being taught math without being given examples which are applicable in the real world. They're us all told to find the area of a square or memorize SOHCAHTOA, but never nudged in the right direction on where it can be useful to them so they don't give a shit.
If highschools threw in finance classes and made everyone do physics and chemistry instead of making them electives, teenagers would have a better appreciation for math as a tool instead of just viewing it as something they have to do when they go to school. Plus the mandatory finance classes would probably help us ensure we don't have as many poor people who are poor because they don't understand budgeting.
Parker Ortiz
Throwing in my two cents.
I believe that people have that mindset because they fail to plan ahead and ponder what they want to pursue later in their lives. The education system is also to blame, but in schools when students are being taught mathematics, they are being taught alike and in order to push students to strive towards greatness, you need to cater to their specific needs and learning speed. While some students go above and beyond and read textbooks because they believe it is what is best for them, others learn at the schools pace, not knowing what these subjects are for and end up getting thrown off track because they decided to slack off during their high school years.
When people say that certain classes will never be used in life, they are wrong, because as they learn in that class, their mindset is changing drastically similar to Political socialization and their values may change.
Connor Edwards
Lol you think teenagers would actually pay attention to a class about finance.
Isaac Jackson
>muh when are gonna even use this in real life
It's a convenient excuse for brainlets and nothing else.
Zachary Myers
They were taught math on the off chance they might find a use for it.
Andrew Garcia
A lot of people actually do think that way and then start paying attention when given realistic application of the material
They'd pay more attention to that than a basic math class. Especially if you made it hands on in the sense that you let the kids actually use real money and had them watch it grow in a bank account or you had them play the stock market in class and then told them if they used real money these would have been their winnings or losses. I guarantee a lot of kids would start paying attention once they saw the braniac of the class literally win $500 real dollars after investing in $10 or more in a semester by simply paying attention. You could divide them into groups and buy stocks on their behalf, so the kids don't have to actually pay real stock prices, they'd just buy parts of an actual share which are split equally among members in a group for the semester.
Cooper Foster
>that math and other school subjects are useless and they will never be used in life?
Because they are. You Ivory Tower retards always seem to forget that you live on an entirely separate plane of existence. Nobody - literally no fucking single person - gives a shit about your academic circle-jerk bullshit except yourselves. Math and physics is not used in the real world. Sure, engineers will use a little bit of calculus and thermodynamics, but calculus is not math and thermodynamics is not physics. Mathematicians and physicists are like abstract artists. Just coming up with literal bullshit to stroke their egos and make themselves feel like they're contributing to something. None of the ideas they come up with will ever be used in a practical, real world setting, and the only other people who appreciate these ideas are those participating in the circle-jerk.
As for other school subjects. The humanities are literally useless. The only reason to study history or philosophy is for curiosity's sake. They serve no practical purpose. Social sciences are just a disaster.
A man living in the real world, not coddled by the upper middle class comforts that academics enjoy, will never give a shit about anything that public education feeds him. To him, such things are useless. And he's correct. There is no reason to study anything that doesn't serve some kind of practical purpose.