• Dear Guest, Please note that adult content is not permitted on this forum. We have had our Google ads disabled at times due to some posts that were found from some time ago. Please do not post adult content and if you see any already on the forum, please report the post so that we can deal with it. Adult content is allowed in the glory hole - you will have to request permission to access it. Thanks, scara

Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.

I think this is a decent plan, I am a strong believer that schooling should be more flexible and students should be better prepped for a future that suits their skills.
 
MartyFunkhouser said:
To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.

I think this is a decent plan, I am a strong believer that schooling should be more flexible and students should be better prepped for a future that suits their skills.
Click to expand...
Better skills for the future that is ahead of us would be the way I look at it.
 
The Pak army are 5 mins from my family home in Kashmir right now. 6 civilians have been killed from my town today. All the family are curfewed and locked inside.
 
Gutter Boy said:
I'm not sure. Skills date and become obsolete very quickly, whereas learning the basic foundations of disciplines + critical thinking, will last a lifetime
Click to expand...
Critical thinking is important for sure, and some skills will become obsolete quicker than others - coding, middle management, graphic designer etc. These types of jobs will disappear in the not-too-distant future. I work in one and can see where it is going. However, we are training kids for jobs that won't exist. Some skills will not date nor become obsolete. The skills I am thinking of are for the planet we and our children will inhabit in 5, 10, 50 years, and that is a different skill set entirely. These would be jobs AI hasn't already stolen from humans or skills that would be useful on a hostile planet.

I managed to coax one of my boys into becoming an electrician ( I think), and I couldn't be happier. The other boy is a physio, so that is a skill for the future also. I have a young daughter who I will start nudging into particular careers with my Jedi mind tricks soon enough.
 
Last edited:
LutonSpurs said:
The Pak army are 5 mins from my family home in Kashmir right now. 6 civilians have been killed from my town today. All the family are curfewed and locked inside.
Click to expand...

I'm sorry to hear and hope they all keep safe

Could you explain the context. Is this domestic strife, or Pakistan vs India border skirmish?
 
Rorschach said:
Critical thinking is important for sure, and some skills will become obsolete quicker than others - coding, middle management, graphic designer etc. These jobs that will disappear in the not-too-distant future. I work in one and can see where it is going. However we are training kids for jobs that won't exist. Some skills will not date nor become obsolete. The skills I am thinking of are for the planet our we and children will inhabit in 5, 10, 50 years, and that is a different skill set entirely. These would be jobs AI hasn't already stolen from humans or skills that would be useful on a hostile planet.

I managed to coax one of my boys into becoming an electrician ( I think), and I couldn't be happier. The other boy is a physio, so that is a skill for the future also. I have a young daughter who I will start nudging into particular careers with my Jedi mind tricks soon enough.
Click to expand...

I agree with that. But when most people think skills for kids, they are meaning things like programming or coding, and on very specific systems or languages, which fall out of use very quickly.
 
Gutter Boy said:
I agree with that. But when most people think skills for kids, they are meaning things like programming or coding, and on very specific systems or languages, which fall out of use very quickly.
Click to expand...
That's fair enough. Mind you, the language I program in, COBOL, is the oldest there is, and it is still going strong. There are COBOL programs in the Smithsonian, if you can believe it.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back