@icedquinn

School is the only thing keeping adults from being dumber than they already are... and they are pretty damn dumb most of the time.

That said I'd be all about including survival skills in school along side traditional subjects. I also think we need a major reform on how we teach kids in the first place.

@zleap

@freemo @icedquinn

Yeah there are schemes in the UKto teach kids about money, saving etc.

But yes survival skills would be good, how to survive without a mobile phone, how to read a map (paper) how to cope with zero electricity.

Oh and most important teach common sense.

@freemo @zleap i think i was literally told the supply chain provideth so nobody needs to learn things like how to remain alive because the obviously they will just take their government diseducation and become an administrative assistant and always buy their food from the bread lord forever.

> 20 years later
> supply chain not provideth
> economy about to autodestruct
> QUINN WAS RIGHT

@icedquinn

To be fair even if the supply chain completely collapsed right now and super markets were empty most people with survival skills would still just die. There would never be enough land to support hunter and gatherers or even personal gardens and still expect everyone to get fed.

That said I think survival skills are good more from a sense that it enables people to go on adventures and those are very important for adults to do IMO

@zleap

@icedquinn @freemo

We need people with skills for the future, computing, engineering , sciences etc etc so we can really solve the problems of the future.

But we also need people with practical skills to build stuff, we need people to care for others at all levels

@zleap @freemo yea so actually fun story i learned nothing at public school that accomplished any of those things you are talking about.

i learned algebra from myself and programming from myself and all school ever did was destroy the will to live and be a minimum security prison that literally physically assaulted me.

burn it down kill them burn the corpses salt the earth and replace pls.

@icedquinn

It is great you learned those things for yourself, and it does perhaps speak to the ineffectual nature of how we teach (thus why I call for reform on how we teach).

That said, not everyone is you and many people learned a lot of base knowledge from school they wouldnt have learned otherwise for any number of reasons.

@zleap

@freemo @zleap
> not everyone is quinn
this is why society is fucked ngl

@icedquinn

That is true, A society exclusively filled with quinns would not have these problems :)

@zleap

I was horrible in math class yet it wasn't until watching Miller Puckette's lectures on PureDATA that I was simply preferring to have the text-book follow me instead of following the book.

Alright. After reading the Onion the past few months I must admit.

I am forming a micro-nation /break-away society .