What is the most important subject basic education teaches?
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My point was that reading is a too basic skill to be even included in this list
It is idiotic to oppose math and science skills to reading skills, you need to have reading skills long before you start studying any math/science.... I mean how hard is it to learn to read??? So hard you need a separate subject???
It is idiotic to oppose math and science skills to reading skills, you need to have reading skills long before you start studying any math/science.... I mean how hard is it to learn to read??? So hard you need a separate subject???
Scientists, Mathematicians, and anybody else is useless if they don't have solid reading and comprehension skills.
This is the first thing that came to mind actually. This rudimentary ability to read and analyze is our best tool at understanding the world around us and was of course a weapon(the forbidding of, that is) used against slaves in order to further impose psychological will. Before that, women were mainly illiterates which perpetuated male domination, that minority in control of any relevant literature will always have this fundamental advantage. You can't replace reading with anything..
This is the first thing that came to mind actually. This rudimentary ability to read and analyze is our best tool at understanding the world around us and was of course a weapon(the forbidding of, that is) used against slaves in order to further impose psychological will. Before that, women were mainly illiterates which perpetuated male domination, that minority in control of any relevant literature will always have this fundamental advantage. You can't replace reading with anything..
What you so curiously fail to understand is that reading and comprehension doesn't stop at the basic level, in order to become a scientist(of any discipline) actually, you'd be required to clear various levels of English curriculum. Understanding words and meanings is a very basic skill, reading however, is not and doesn't even stop after K-12
Communication and analytical ability is what you apply to science and everything else in general. Nothing else is really notable and even though the use of Math is more ancient than "reading" per se, the same communication and analytical ability which lead to writing was(and still is) utilized in the form of oral tradition and memorization, which has infinite uses for survival in practical life. Science is a new concept and is nothing more than a search for knowledge that appeals to man's curiosity(with the exception of medical advances and other beneficial technologies, which all require reading), but has less to do in comparison with the ultimate survival and social intelligence of people.
Well, when I was a kid we directly started studying literature and grammar, we spent the first few months in school learning how to read but half of the kids already knew how to read and write (I learned it on my own listening to my grandmother reading me books, looking at the symbols and comparing the sounds and the letters) so it was more of studying calligraphy than anything else...
As nhojsmith reason and logic are what you need in order to communicate well, not the ability to read
I really don't think taking classes where you read is better for you than taking math... Math gives you everything in terms of logic and ability to think, literature classes can only mess your mind with vague interpretations of what "the author wanted to say"....
As nhojsmith reason and logic are what you need in order to communicate well, not the ability to read
I really don't think taking classes where you read is better for you than taking math... Math gives you everything in terms of logic and ability to think, literature classes can only mess your mind with vague interpretations of what "the author wanted to say"....
Well, most Europeans at least know most of the countries in Europe...
That's a significant progress compared to Americans...
Believe me, when you've been asked by Americans "Where you from?", you tell them the name of your country and they ask you "Which state is that in, must be a small town, I haven't heard it..." so many times as I have, you will develop certain type of opinion about the brain capacities of people in this country. Especially when your own nation is thousands of years old and is the oldest country in Europe....
That's a significant progress compared to Americans...
Believe me, when you've been asked by Americans "Where you from?", you tell them the name of your country and they ask you "Which state is that in, must be a small town, I haven't heard it..." so many times as I have, you will develop certain type of opinion about the brain capacities of people in this country. Especially when your own nation is thousands of years old and is the oldest country in Europe....
Logic and classes associated with logic usually fall under humanities or english. And like I said, a person can read all day but that doesn't mean they will be able to comprehend what they read or apply what they read in their everyday life. In regards to the american education system, it teaches little, and what it does teach is in the best interest of the select few.
