Case in point, I was just reading on some other place on the internet that someone is arguing that there's no need, purpose nor merit to cluttering up kids' minds with such trivia as the difference between deciduous and coniferous trees.
Since, of course, you don't need to use that in your day-to-day life once you leave school. Ergo it's useless.
Let's ignore, for the moment, that a failure to understand that difference is part of what informed this .
Fuck that. That's the fucking point.
If you don't know that some trees lose their leaves every year, and other trees don't, you're obviously a clueless asshole who has so little understanding of the world around you that you shouldn't be allowed to cross the street without a minder! For that matter, let's consider that currently many employers are complaining that they have to do what they consider remedial training when they get high school graduates. A local company makes milling machinery that is the standard for the industry. (Davenport Machines, Inc.) They cannot find enough qualified applicants for the positions they have to fill, because so many of the applicants they get can't do simple math, or understand the hazards of metalworking.
ISTM that the vast majority of the electorate has not only no recognition of the nation's history, but also no understanding of how the current system of government came to be, nor even what the limits and powers of the government are. And still people claim that history is a useless field of study, only applicable to some esoteric lunatics called historians.
Fuck you and your close-minded intellectual laziness. For that matter, go find some teat to suckle on, and stop talking in public. You have just proven you can't be trusted with anything as dangerous as an opinion, nor even a thought.
For the morbidly curious: The Dope thread that inspired this rant.