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| General:
I think it's good to have general awareness of your surroundings which is science |
| KickFlow:
--- Quote from: General on April 20, 2015, 01:43:58 PM ---You're not gonna be using maths at all in physical labour? Trust me, there are at least measurements involved there... --- End quote --- Did you read what I said? Measurements haven't gone past what I learned in like 3rd grade yet and I worked maintainance all summer last year and doing it this summer too. I needed to make mixed gas for weed wackers and they just said "pour about this much" and it doesn't need measuring just eye balling. If it's something critical then yes we'd measure and we all know how but we could have done it without going to highschool. |
| IkeTheGeneric:
--- Quote from: General on April 20, 2015, 01:43:58 PM ---You're not gonna be using maths at all in physical labour? Trust me, there are at least measurements involved there... --- End quote --- Besides the basic mathematical skills you learn early on, I doubt you're going to need trig to fill cement and plane boards |
| General:
--- Quote from: IkeTheGeneric on April 20, 2015, 01:52:25 PM ---Besides the basic mathematical skills you learn early on, I doubt you're going to need trig to fill cement and plane boards --- End quote --- Ofc not, but general education comes in a package and pretty much everything in maths taught at a general level is very regularly used. Also there's something called a foundation course in Britain that only teaches measurements, logical thinking and stuff. It would still look good to apply to a job in labour with at least a diploma at a foundation level. |
| sir dooble:
Bear in mind you're going to school with thousands of other children. Thousands of people who will eventually take a career any number of fields, from labourers, to waiters, caterers, hairdressers, businessmen, scientists, musicians, mathematicians, artists, actors, software developers, soldiers, lawyers, police officers, taxi drivers and more. How many people really know what they want to do in life right now? Or have always known every single thing they're good at. If school curriculums excluded loads of subjects then so many people would never know that they had a passion for a certain thing, or were great at something, and they might never fill those roles. When it comes down to it you get to choose the subjects you want when it matters. You get a little bit of choice in secondary school, more in high school, and even more at university. But everyone needs a baseline to begin at. |
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