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Because you're a person. Not a machine. You live in the actual, real world, that has life choices, and... actual life.
You will make choices in life that have nothing to do with software development. Whether you'll benefit from them or not might not be under your control, but you can at least try to make the right choices. For that, you need to learn things, things that are not programming languages.
You will have friends, lovers, family, that will not be coders. What will you talk about? What will make you an interesting person? What makes you not a tool?
Because I learned geography in school I can exchange memories with friends more efficiently and know each other better.
Because I learned biology I know better what's happening to me, or living beings around me, and can react better to events.
Because I learned history, I've learned how to be an honest good person and can interpret political events better.
Everything I learned made me richer. And I still learn. -
@ryanmhoffman no dude. Life doesn't teach that. People that learned from life started skipping vaccines for their kids. People that learned from life are dumb as fuck.
Literally.
I went to a park, some guy approached me to sell me weed. I politely refused, and we struck up a conversation because he didn't have anything better to do. Nice guy, really. But DUMB AS FUCK. I could immediately tell that he wasn't educated. Not because he couldn't parse a binary tree breadth-first, but because any topic that I struck with him about live, about the job market, about benefits of a healthy diet (I was chewing on a burger at the time), or literally anything else that's not weed or his vegetable stew that he makes, he was completely oblivious to it, and acting as if he knew everything.
That's because he was from Ghana. And when he was a boy, school was not an option. Thus, everything that came out of him was idiotic. He had 40 years of life to teach him. Didn't help.
School is necessary. -
@apisarenco sounds to me like that guy has tons of life experience, he just lacks the motivation to use it for something productive (though some could argue that his weed business embodies the entreprenerial spirit.)
Taking biology as a 19 year old freshman in college does not prevent you from becoming a drug dealer in the park at 40. I never said school was unnecessary, only that core classes that are irrelevant to your desired degree are. -
@ryanmhoffman it's not about being a drug dealer. I don't have a problem with that. It's about not being able to talk about anything.
Found this in our codebase, apparently one of my co-workers had written this
Eternal confusion.
Honestly, school is useless for me as of right now. I know I should be well rounded and stuff, but do I honestly need to know the symptoms of cervix cancer while going into a tech career? My eyes have been set on tech for my whole life, ever since I left the womb, and I know that if I do switch careers, it'll be from comp sci to cyber security not from IT to med school...
I feel like I could really be devoting my time towards something better than writing a 5 page essay on a healthy food choice.
Every night I think to myself, "You know what, I'm going to lock myself in a room and write bash scripts all day" but then I wake up in the morning, and remember I have to take a quiz on reproductive systems, learn about the procedure of organ donations for driver's ed, write 2 paragraph definitions of vocab words, and read a book about communism.
The most useful thing I learned last year, was how to efficiently navigate the java API, and that's something you don't even learn, you just encounter it. Schools need to start having more specific specialties and stop enforcing knowledge of pointless topics.
I'm not saying to remove all core classes and stuff, I'm saying why waste space in our brains with something we won't use ever again? I get it, some people don't know what career they're looking for yet so you can't make them choose, but it honestly sucks some serious ass that I can't learn what I want to at school, and as a matter of fact, I can't even learn at home, because they're filling my schedule with pointless work because they feel that they have to fill our time somehow.
Point of this long ass rant is: Why lock yourself in a room and learn about something if it isn't something you want to learn about? The space in our brain is finite enough, why can't it be filled with things we're interested in rather than things that will only be used to get good grades in the future then overwritten with useful knowledge. Same thing with time. We have a very finite amount of time in a day, and now that I think of it, a lifetime. Why spend it on something that doesn't, and never will, make your life enjoyable?
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