What we learn in school need not be memorable. Most of us, especially in lower levels, are not gathering information for future use. Rather, we are learning how to process information and use it to our advantage. Those of us with interest in history will spend time gathering historical information using the tools we learned in school. If we learned in school only what will be relevant in the future we would have to assume that the future is set and that people could know all we might ever need to know. This is simply not possible.
In school we should present simple facts to young minds and regulate their minds in the forms of critical thought, experimentation, and fine observation. Those with high apptitude in such activities should be rewarded and their successes should be touted.
Early schooling need not fill us with relevant facts. Rather we should be learning to discern between relevant and irrelevant information. Talented individuals will then seek information that is relevant to their interests. All this discussion about learning history, technology, ECT… Is a misguided discussion, not about education, but rather about which propoganda the above posters prefer.
