[Molten]

Originally Posted by theprgramerdude

This is so, so true. At my school, there are numerous courses which students (including me) are required to take, yet they hate taking them, simply because they teach nothing of value. Or rather, we learn nothing of value. Teachers are trying to teach something we see no point in learning, like why, or rather, what types of dictatorships there are in the world. There's no point to all of this pseudo-learning going on. It does nothing to help us. When does the value of c cause the limit to exist for this equation.... all garbage.

Maybe I'm ranting too much due to the concussion and the pressure on my brain at the moment, but I've noticed there has definitely got to be something fundamentally wrong with the "teaching" in school today.

Just because you don't value it. Doesn't mean it has no value. I'm a tutor for pre-calculus. I know students think there isn't any use for algebra(unless your a farmer building a fence, creating a mixture, or any other stereotypical word problem) But the truth is, they can't comprehend the applications yet because you have to know algebra pretty good before you can actually follow their applications. Also, the reason there aren't many real world problems and proofs taught in school is because most students don't want them. They hate word problems and ignore the proof as long as they don't have to reproduce it. Perhaps the real problem is that the classes are catering to the students too much?

Jason