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is a point to it?
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  • tryingtobehelpful answered 4 months ago
    Good question.

    I find I have used almost nothing I learnt at school, past the first couple of years of primary school anyway. I hardly ever multiply or divide anything except with a calculator.

    Other than basic arithmetic, literacy is good but I learnt to read by reading and to write by writing, which I could have done even if I did not go to school.

    I think that it is in your sub question "is a point to it" lies the nub. There is no point to learning the stuff that we are taught at school, but that is precisely the point, because there is little point to most of things that we do in our lives.

    Most of us do jobs which are essentially pointless to the individual that is doing them. They don't involve getting food, sex, or being creative. A lot of them are backroom or soilatry and don't even get love in the form of a thank you or smile. But in order to become a cog in an organsation, and get paid, we need to get used to doing pointless things.

    Schools teach us to like learning the Kings and Queens of England or the Presidents of the United States, the periodic table, and trigonometry, and other pointless things, because the majority of social life is pointless, and people who can do pointless things enthusiastically are highly valuable as members of society.

    As well as to enjoy or endure pointlessness, school teaches us other things too, such as to respect the content of books, routives and authority. See Ivan Illich and others who write about "The Hidden Curriculum," which "consists of those things pupils learn through the experience of attending school rather than the stated educational objectives of such institutions" (Haralambos).

    I have been thinking about 'the hidden curriculum' since I was a rebellious child but it was a Japanese teacher at the University of Newcastle who shared with me the true horror of the hidden curriculum - the point is pointlessness - and he became pathologically depressed shortly thereafter. Dangerous wisdom?
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  • ToySolider answered 11 months ago
    If there was no school we wouldn't know how to do anything. The people that made our computers, phones and TV, they all most likely went to school. If we didn't have school then no one would know how to read or write. Honestly, the world would be a terrible place without education. I don't like school either but I know that I have to go through it if I want to become something in life.
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  • Iris Lee answered 2 months ago
    So it's easier to find a job or a career that you would definaity like. And plus you wouldn't even learn to read or write and most importantly type on the computer now would you?
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  • Anonymous answered 1 month ago
    That's why! Why "are" there school? This question is actually pretty ironic.
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  • Thomas answered 4 months ago
    i love you
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  • Andrew answered 4 months ago
    To get you ready for colleges
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  • Anonymous answered 5 months ago
    So you learn how to do this

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  • Amit answered 5 months ago
    You can study online nowadays. There are a few good sites.

    www.thath.in

    www.coursera.com

    www.udacity.com
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  • Nli answered 12 months ago
    School isn't only about grammar and such. Idiots. Quit attempting to be hilarious by making fun of op's grammar.

    Anyways, in my opinion, school just prepares you for college, which prepares you for your job.
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  • ElementSbs answered 11 months ago
    There are school because
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  • Patsy answered 10 months ago
    "Why are there school?"
    Well there are may reasons why there is school, but one is spelling and grammar.
    So instead of saying "Why are there school?" you need to say "Why is there school?"

    Source(s):

    Source- Im in 5th grade
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  • Aidan answered 12 months ago
    So you don't say "why are there school"
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  • Kauhane answered 12 months ago
    To make people like you smarter.
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  • Ashley answered 10 months ago
    So you don't ask questions like this.
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  • Nick answered 15 hours ago
    Your question is the reason why.
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  • Michael answered 12 months ago
    you just answered your own question.
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  • I Love Justin Bieber answered 11 months ago
    So you can learn.
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  • Aria answered 6 years ago
    You answered the question yourself. With some more time in school, you'll one day understand that I mean. Maybe.

    Also, I dugg (sic) this.

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    School
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  • dwalk51 answered 6 years ago
    Hahahaha Meeno is completely correct. We're just having an incorrect grammar fest.
    Really -Motivation-? Really? Come on man, you're just embarrassing us all here. No wait, you're only embarrassing yourself!
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  • DavidS answered 9 months ago
    "Why are there school?"
    Well there is school because:
    Why are there school?
    should be
    Why IS THERE school?
    So that's why......

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    MY SOURCE IS SCHOOL
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  • schoolsucks answered 6 years ago
    There is a point. If you're from the US, Read "The Underground History of American Education" by former teacher John Taylor Gotto. It's available freely online here: http://johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/inde...

    At LEAST do yourself a favor and read the Prologue, if that doesn't interest you, sorry for wasting your time. http://johntaylorgatto.com/underground/p...

    If you're not American, read it anyways, chances are similar has happened in your country too.
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  • Dragon Ball answered 10 months ago
    lol
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  • bailagentklase answered 6 years ago
    You just answered your own question. There are schools because of -
    "why are there school?"
    "is a point to it?"

    You need school. Much school.

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    My own brain.
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  • Greg Tillman answered 9 months ago
    "Why are there school?"
    That's why.
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  • pr1ncess2045 answered 6 years ago
    i no think is point to school. is not good for happy fun tiems.
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  • vile1011 answered 6 years ago
    The appropriate response to this question involves the need to do way instain mother who kill they're babby, for reasons contingent upon said babby's inability to frigt back.
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  • WithTheLightsOut answered 6 years ago
    Bcuz I thik People go 2 thare sow they cane larn stff U no?
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  • g2thakizzle answered 6 years ago
    I like school. He are a cool guy and doesn't afraid of anything.
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  • applejuice answered 6 years ago
    some people actually go to school to learn how to ask questions just like that (philosophy)

    The question you asked is a perfectly valid question. I think one of the great minds in history once said something along the line of "give me a person of 4.0 gpa and in 10 years i'll give you a complete failure"

    People who are good at out-of-the-box thinking might be able to come up with some really neat answers (as well as questions) to your question.

    yeah so, What if we didn't have school? EVER? how would we (human race) have evolved? would civilization as we know it looked very different then? is learning come from school only? could we have walked on moon in 1969 if nobody in history ever went to school? how effective school systems are in terms of preparing humans function effectively in real world? why are there terms like 'educated fools'? why are 4.0 gpas don't get laid?why do grammar/spelling nazis make good prison brides but hated by all? etc etc

    yeah so i don't really know the answers to your question. i learned very little in school. however i had to attend because thats how we're socially conditioned and how our socio-economic structure is built around. yeah man i don't know
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  • smartautomation answered 6 years ago
    It gives you a place to meet girls until you learn enough to get a job.
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