Published on 12, July, 2020
A home educating parent once mentioned that primary school level maths and English is 90% of what you need to know for everyday life as an adult an in most of employment. The remaining 10% can be learned as and when it is required. Most of what is taught in secondary school is not required for everyday life or most of employment.
Therefore is secondary school a waste of time from the perspective of education and knowledge?
Hi Arran,
Really interesting post.
School definitely teaches us things. I am in no doubt about that. However, is what we learn in school of value to us as individuals and to our society as a whole?
I think that John Taylor Gatto says it best:
The following are excerpts from his book ‘Dumbing Us Down, The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling…’
The 7 lessons of compulsory schooling…
Yes, there are definitely lessons to be learnt at school. But I don’t think those lessons have as much to do with maths, history or science as people may wish them to. I think those lessons are mainly to do with training kids to become dependent, controllable adults.
Yes. Perhaps that's the one lesson I did learn. That I never wanted to be a part of what they were trying to make me.