Why do schools teach useless crap that can not be applied to real life? What’s the point of memorizing the periodic table of elements for example? Any teachers here care to explain?
Why do schools teach useless crap that can not be applied to real life? What’s the point of memorizing the periodic table of elements for example? Any teachers here care to explain?
Where do schools require students to memorize the periodic table?
Anonymous Coward, please change your label to Anonymous Idot.
They don’t…..second anon is an idiot!
Me and Donald like to cruise town and suck face…with each other!
This makes Bob right mad….he’ll then pretend to be someone else saying “why are you so obsessed with Bob”
Let’s wait and find out what happens mate!
@Anonymous Coward
When I was studying for my chemistry A level many years ago I memorised a big chunk of the periodic table. To pass the exams one of the things you need to know is how to describe the similarities and differences between elements, for example how the reactivity of the alkali metals changes as you move down their column in the table. You can’t do that unless you know their correct arrangement in the table.
So to answer your question, in sixth form school and college chemistry courses in the UK.
In case you’re not familiar with the UK educational system, A levels are exams which students usually take at the ages of 17 or 18 and are a requirement for entry to university. Some high schools have sixth forms which teach A levels but there are also sixth form colleges.
Same reason we got a year of greek myths, in spite of the whole church and state thing. Cursive writing? doing a lot of that these days… not. And let’s not forget research papers… yeah there was a skill valuable outside academia. 😅
We, in Germany, had to learn the periodic table. Most might not remember it after many years. But a look on it and you find what you need. The knowledge is still there.
Why can’t I get a job with my Lesbian Folk Dancing Theory Phd.? I should be making $200k my first year out of college. If I can’t get that and my student loans paid off I’m not working. Can’t you see what Trump is doing?
My H.S., everyone that took Chemistry had to memorize it.
What are student loans? 😂
Obvious troll job.
“I know, let’s make fun of schools and education! ”
Learning stuff = bad.
Thinking with your gut = good.
Got it? Now go and listen to those idiots who claim to know everything, and then you’ll know everything too! Don’t worry if you miss an episode, you can just make stuff up. Simple eh?
Even better, you can just ignore the people who spend their whole life studying one topic. Ignorance is bliss.
There’s just so much here..
#Anon #1, you misspelled idiot.
I learned that Fe is star poison. It made me cry for a week. Now I can’t look at a periodic table.
I guess Zelensky will need a new job in November, didn’t know he knew periodic table.
Given the state of science and engineering and the fact a bunch of people (engineers and scientists) thought the hyper loop was a good idea (some how 1000s of Kw vacuum pumps was going to be more efficient than 4 jet engines!)……….maybe learning the periodic table isnt a bad idea, a start anyway!
Some of the most helpless people I’ve known have been the best educated. They can navigate the education system but they can’t do the most basic tasks in life.
Education and intelligence don’t always go together.
Agreed. Look to flat earthers, antivaxxers for the best examples.
or the “authorities” that were giving out information on Covid. The W.H.O., Fauci etc.
Either they were idiots and knew very little or they are evil, no middle ground.
Dunning-Kruger-Bob strikes again.
Only 32% of people are taking the “Boosters”. Most people only took enough jabs to allow them to work, shop, go to school or travel etc.. and haven’t taken any since. These people are usually the most anti vaxx people out there. Why isn’t the Pro Vax movement going after the non-boosted? Aren’t they “Killing” people.. or is it that two was all that was needed to accomplish the Government’s goal?
idiots or evil…..”no middle ground” ?
The simple minded always think in black and white. The real world is too complicated for them.
That’s why populists are popular. They offer easy answers to complicate problems. Answers, not solutions.
“Some of the most helpless people I’ve known have been the best educated. They can navigate the education system but they can’t do the most basic tasks in life.
Education and intelligence don’t always go together.”
Yet it’s their competence in their field expertise, that is in doubt here by Dunning-Kruger-Bobs. If they are able to cook themselves dinner or buy cloths has nothing to do with it.
Must be hard for Bob to stay on topic….especially when it involves intelligence!
Has to get in his tin foil hat trolling! Made up percentages to try and aggro the eat liver crowd lol
Kid needs to try harder!
Sure 80% of what we told you about this virus has been proven false but that doesn’t mean you have the right to question whether you should take it or not.
With this, as with many other things, follow the money. Who is reaping the profits, and who is doing so with no accountability?
You. Were. Fooled.
LOL. 80% proven false according to the fake news sites he checks every day.
It’s been a few years. You were never forced to take the jab.
Get a life.
You are still debunked. No matter how often you get one of your mental meltdowns, Bob.
Bob just pulls random numbers out of his ass because he’s a pathetic troll….as in…he’s trying to troll but doent understand to pull real numbers from real sources and then twist them……don’t just invent them Bob, such an insect man!
The more un educated the people are the more likely they are to vote Republican. Republicans like to keep people misinformed……follow the votes Bob!
Don’t believe me? Look the statistics up, areas with less education, vote more Republican!
Democrats want Felons and Illegal Aliens to have the vote, because that is their people and they NEED their numbers. So much so they are willing to destroy the country, allowing votes to pour over the boarder just for the next election and no worries for the future after November.
You just have to ask.. why all the anti Right propaganda on a Canadian site that no Americans see? Your not helping. You can’t vote in the US. You understand that your posts are as meaningless as a dog fart right? People MUST be getting paid or why bother. Seriously, why? Make it make sense.
If the U.S. has so many felons that they can make a difference in elections then something is badly wrong in America. It were conservatives who build the prisons are a business model. It doesn’t matter if you are innocent as long as the shareholder value is on the rise. America needs nore crime. Republicans will provide their donors.
The US has imported millions of criminals in the past 3.8 years. If I was the leader of a Latin American country, I would have emptied the prisons at the US boarder too.
Any one else notice how republicans like Bob fall for Trump’s ethnic scape goats? Who else had ethnic scapegoats …..oh yes the Nazis! Who else told everyone that if you weren’t a particular people…..you were a criminal? The Nazis!
If you can’t see how your Republican cult is heading the way of the third Reich you either don’t care or relish it! Probably the latter!
They wont get it, they will just point the finger at someone else!
I think it’s beautiful how the left essentially supports Hamas and then calls everyone on the right, Hitler.
Lol you were given the reason why you muppet…..read! You don’t like what’s being said though huh? Truth has that effect on pedo loving repubabies!
Hitler was on the political right. Just saying. And don’t bore us with they “socialist” in the party’s name. That was mislabeling to gather voters.
Hamas and the Nazis are two completely different ideologies ……but hey to a repubaby everything under the age of 12 with two legs is a sex toy so…..can’t expect them to figure this out without someone holding their hand!
Dear Totally Miss the Point Person,
Hamas and Nazis want to eliminate the Jews.
Sorry to confuse you with such complicated concepts.
Lol Nazis were right wing…..guess that makes you a Nazi! Nazis were conservative, guess that makes you a Nazi! Nazis didn’t like black people either…..guess youre a Nazi???
According to you……something correlated is somehow identical! It’s not, but you were never very good at this were you?
I would say republicans are closer to Nazis than Hamas!
Stop obsessing over left or right. In the US, especially over the past 20 years, the center has moved significantly. What was “the center” is now considered ‘far right” by many. Now if you are going to apply the environment of Germany 90 years ago, those 2024 definitions mean even less.
It’s my opinion that if you are supporting the genocide of the Jewish people, it’s very Nazi like. You can cry left or right (or Bob for some reason) but the desired outcome is the same.
Bob is a Canadian so he can’t vote in America and he can’t be a Republican or a Trump supporter. A Tory who thinks Trudeau is an asshat maybe but American politics is up to the Americans. NOT you mindless Leftwing Maoists automatons.
Okay Bob, why do you try and pretend to be someone else?
Worst troll ever dude! Seriously!
Bob. Derangement. Syndrome. BDS. Phizer has a mRNA gene therapy jab for that now. It’s “safe and effective”. Honest. Not like last time. You should get one. Or 2 or 10 what with all the boosters. Take it or you’re killing people! Do they grow you creatures on a farm somewhere in Manitoba.. Saskatchewan..?
Do you have a subscription for tin foil hats and flat earth monthly?
“Anonymous October 6, 2024
Do you have a subscription for tin foil hats and flat earth monthly?”
It’s pretty cruel to accuse someone of being a Democrat.