Beats me

Math: "when are we ever gonna use any of this in real life!?"

Later: "why didn't they teach us how taxes work!?"

Actually one of the best courses I've taken against this kinda thing was a "Logic" course in the philosophy track in college that had a huge section devoted to how media tries to manipulate a person. Not typical high school stuff but maybe it should be, and fully up to date for social media. There's a practical course for the 21st century.

We had these classes and people are still stupid. Your point?

Do you think that the people who believe in this bullshit wouldn't believe it if they were provided evidence or something?

They don't work on evidence. They work on vibes. They believe what they believe because they want to, not because it makes sense.

That's why it's so hard to argue with these idiots. You can't logic a dumbass out of a position they didn't logic themselves into.

I remember reading this article and getting very upset and my ex not understanding why. "Let them believe what they want to believe, it doesn't affect you," she said. "These people vote," I said.

Skip to now and I'm pretty confident that I had the correct response.

https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/looking-for-life-on-a-flat-earth

Would have been more accurate with “your a sheep.”

I mean, “those” people believe in a hidden cabal who controls everything and feeds lies to the population, teaching those things in school doesn’t really change much when they’re just going to disregard them as “fake propaganda”.

Yep. This is a thing. Students will learn a lesson best when the student understands the value of the lesson to them in their lives.

This is one of the six basic principles of learning, it's called the Principle of Readiness. You can read all about it in the Aviation Instructor's Handbook alongside other smash hits as the principle of exercise (practice makes perfect) or the principle of primacy (first impressions matter). It's that basic.

Establishing that value, giving the students the context and reason the lesson is valuable to the students is the teacher's responsibility. And I noticed that most teachers forget this somewhere around the 7th grade. Way too many of my teachers answered "Why do we need to learn this?" with "Because it's required to get your diploma."

Took me a bit too long to figure out the following: school isn't supposed to only teach you specific things; it's supposed to teach you how to learn.

#BUT JESUS SAYS....

You don't need biology, chemistry, etc. You just need to listen to the people who do, instead of people who have no qualifications whatsoever.

Taking High School biology is never going to give you the knowledge necessary to understand a research paper.

Or you can read history books about the myriad of diseases we literally cured with vaccines.

*sheeple

based

I had a teacher that said: “at school you’re not here to learn about history and science, you’re here to learn how to learn”

GMOs are unsafe

Actual usage of GMOs IRL is mostly to promote plant resistance to RoundUp (glyphosate) which is definitely unsafe.

When people list off positions they disagree with like this, they always miss the mark on one or two...

Which kids said this specifically?

Huh , so those who were forced to learn propaganda as impressionable children are then as duscerning and wise adults are no longer able to research, study and come to other conclusions? Huh.

Dude, you don't believe science. All you do is listen to TV saying what "scientists have said". Don't act like you believe climate change because you read hundreds of peer reviewed papers and built an informed opinion based on stats. The most you did was a Google search, if ever, and then read from a website from a government-funded institution that wouldn't get funding if it said the "wrong thing".

Spare us your condescension. You're just in a cult 🫡

Well, GMOs are almost exclusively used for extreme mass production of herbicide-resistant corn and soy, for biofuels and cattle feed. All of that is disastrous for the environment (and humans), so yes: GMO bad.