Fuck triangles. Seriously. Never liked the suckers.
Exactly. It's just a damn triangle. Why the hell do I have to learn them if I'm going to be a... let's say a lawyer. This education system thing is pretty fucked. Seriously, does a lawyer need to know about trigonometry? In my country, they do. I wish I lived in somewhere else with a better education system.
Because even lawyers sometimes need to know how to build their own bookshelves, or how tall a building is, or how far away something is.
Not sure I get that. What does trigonometry has to do with building a bookshelf and calculating how far away something is?
Bookshelf I'm not sure about, but there's a classic trig problem where you have to find the height of a sand dune given just 2 distances from it and the 2 angles at those distances between the ground and the top of the sand dune. Presumably, that could also be used to figure out the height of a building, although it would probably be easier, faster and relatively more precise to just count the number of stories in the building...
Since grade school, I have always went "WTF?" with maths questions they asked at school. Here is an example I faced when I was around 8 years old:
There are 8 chickens and an unknown number of horses in an animal farm. When you count their legs, there are 28 legs. How many horses are there?
I was like "Just stop wasting our time with counting legs and count the damn animals already". What a genius solution right? I guess that explains why I still can't learn a maths topic without thinking "What kinda stuff are we going to use this knowledge for? I would be okay if it was general knowledge but..."
I seriously can't find myself interested in a topic if it doesn't have any practical use in real life. I like the history lessons though. It is real and interesting. Maths? It just seems like another dimension. Something that makes simple things a lot more difficult. I wish I could study maths without stomachache but this is just the way I am. I suck at these things. I really envy math-geniuses.
Even my teacher is agreeing to me that this education system just fills students with knowledge that we will forget after graduation.
Fuck triangles. Seriously. Never liked the suckers.
Exactly. It's just a damn triangle. Why the hell do I have to learn them if I'm going to be a... let's say a lawyer. This education system thing is pretty fucked. Seriously, does a lawyer need to know about trigonometry? In my country, they do. I wish I lived in somewhere else with a better education system.
If we'd only teach our children what we are sure they're going to need, we'll soon find out just how well we can judge what we really need...
Of course. If you ask an average student s(he) won't want to learn a thing that seems complex. But do they really have to teach college stuff (IMO) like trigonometry at high school?