Debunking the ‘Pointless’ Education Myth | StarTalk

people think that when they take math in
school there’s the common response like
I will never need to use this for the
rest of my life as they learn trig
identities or the Pythagorean theorem or
whatever it is that we all remember
learning feeling pretty sure it’s never
going to show up again but that misses
something important it misses the fact
that the act of learning how to do the
math establishes a new kind of brain
wiring in your mind a kind of
problem-solving brain wiring so it’s not
about what you learned it’s about what
methods tools and tactics you had to
develop in order to solve the problem
that you may never see again for the
rest of your life but you will see other
problems where these methods and tools
will become immensely valuable to you
it’s no different from in the liberal
arts where if you’re tasked with writing
a term paper on some leader from some
chapter in the history of the world you
may never need to know about that leader
again for the rest of your life unless
you’re jeopardy or something so what’s
the point well the point is well what
did you do to conduct the research what
did you do to compose the sentences your
choice of words to communicate an idea a
fresh idea on top of already known ideas
that is the value of education not how
much information that can pour in your
head is how equipped you are to explore
the world on your own after you get out
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