[cjbgkagh]

I’m the opposite, Im 15 years into my career of applied research which for me is like an extension of university. I tend to lean on Mathematica to do my calculus though. I think high school curriculum was optimized to expose a lot of people to things they won’t need on the off chance that a few will end up as researchers of some sort. It would be more efficient to identify such people earlier and split them off. I think historically that was the idea but there has been an egalitarian push to broaden the pool.

[schindlabua]

I think the point of high school is to make kids' brains do work, and what you are learning is secondary.

People love to hate on their school curriculum and all the useless knowledge they had to acquire but I'm positive it makes you a smarter person overall, and the body of high school knowledge makes learning more specialized knowledge easier (even if that's baking bread or whatever)

(People also love to talk about how little they remember from school, yes the brain is a muscle and you stopped working out, congratulations.)