Oddbean

I hear ya, but education is the answer. You may not need it but it's there in case you do. You may not remember how to do it but you remember you once did and can look it up. You start cherry picking who learns what too soon and you start to see very ignorant people with crazy ideas. I'm taking to all the flat Earthers and Astrologists walking around....

I agree that education is the answer, but forcing kids to learn everything, especially if they aren't interested or good at it does more damage than good imo. Maybe those people wouldn't become flat earthers if their bad gpa lead to no university, or no high school diploma.. Despite being good at art or sports, and could have gone on a better track. But we decided all kids needs to know everything and if you don't do it ALL well enough, you're fucked for life. It's ok that some people are bad at math, we don't need everyone to be good at it and learn trigonometry. Imho