Textbook Trivia

Agreed! She's great!

Fuck yeah.

78 up-votes, I've never been so popular   

also Tuesday.

Tuesday is named after Tyr

bonus bonus bonus fun fact - october is meant to be the eighth month (hence octo meaning eight) but because julius and augustus were egocentric they wanted their months to be in the summer (bc its the best time of year obviously) which is why october is the tenth

@ofearlia Actually no, the months are in the same time of year as they always were. March used to be the beginning of the year, as it's a time of rebirth. It's when they conducted the census (therefore Jesus would've actually been born in February or March and Christmas being in December is bullshit) and also when the Romans went to war because they didn't have to walk through snow. Mars the god of war, March the month, and march as a verb (and of course martial) are all related, I think in that order.

So yeah. The sept- oct-  nov- deca- thing is still true, but they didn't get moved ahead. What we consider the beginning of the year just got moved back.

Or school is intended to throw all this information at you so that eventually one of those many things stick to you and you decide i want to do that for a living. Also there are people like my self who like knowing as much about everything as they possibly can and school is great for that. 

School isn't about a bunch of random knowledge at all. It is all about teaching you to think, intelligently approach problems, etc. There is of course tons of knowledge thrown at you; however, it is not for the purpose of memorization. Like @GreyGhost9036 said, all that most individuals need is one subject, one concept, to stick.

I can agree with both what @GreyGhost9036 and @PaIeBIueDot said, but at the same time, I'm willing to bet that most people who didn't go into a specialized field don't use anything they learned beyond basic math and reading. Half the people I've met can't even use those properly. I'm the kind of person who loves knowledge in general, but I'll say that at least with the US Education system, especially in areas outside of major cities, it doesn't really promote critical thinking or using intelligence. It tends to promote cram memorization that you will forget immediately, and sports. I went to school in a rural area, and there was barely even the facade of attempting to teach after about fifth grade. I had plenty of times with teachers who didn't care about what work was done or how well it was done, they would show favoritism and punish those who weren't their favorites. I had one time in middle school where two of the teachers would go off to flirt with each other in the middle of class while we were told to take notes off the projector, when said notes wouldn't even appear on the tests. Another time in high school, (at a completely separate school in the same district), one of the teachers had been giving the worst student in the class high grades constantly because he was sleeping with her, and it came out at the end of the year but he was allowed to pass anyhow while she was fired. The US education system is almost literally about keeping up appearances, rather than helping students to have any form of higher intelligence or discover what they want to do in life. Most of the people I knew in school either went off to college for things they had discovered a passion for outside of school, or just joined the military because they didn't know what else to do with their lives. It may be different in other parts of the country, but I've never heard so from people I've known all across the US.......

@Gamer3427 You make a great point; my illustration fits that of a hypothetical and optimal education system. Common Core has unfortunately done a horrendous job of sculpting a working framework. I was lucky enough to attend a private school, so I never truly had to deal with a multitude of standardized tests and pure memorization. It is rather unfortunate that a nationwide program has a focus on all that is quantifiable (grades, test scores, etc) as opposed to actual learning.