Education and intelligence are not the same thing or concept by any mean, I have a professional and master of arts degrees under my belt, but that doesn't mean I'm "smarter" than anybody else here. I'm educated and instructed for specific tasks and actions. Instruction is necessary in a highly technological society. There's no need to be in an actual classroom to be educated or instructed, there's different applications to modern learning theories, such as child cartoons and programs designed to develop specific characteristics of specific stages of learning development. If any of us growers here were to be presented with a situation or contingency in our grows, we conduct small "researches" to observe, identify, analyse and solve it, we would apply the scientific method somehow because we are socially educated to solve problems.
Fair enough.
Scientific method is one action that can be used in some aspects of adult life, even if it is rarely applied. I'll even give you the benefit of the doubt and say more often than I'd realize, possibly using it for basic troubleshooting without actually knowing that I'm going through the process.
I still stand by my belief that education (preferably public education) is geared towards passing standardized testing and not towards building intelligence. I would not consider the bulk of it as proper education, from a final stand point I see the majority of it as secondary information pushed before practical information.
Like I said before it is needed to expose all forms of education throughout the years, but as children become closer to adults the practical information should take precedences leading the rest to be held as electives.
Our basic human rights, Basic first aid, Basic laws of our home country, a second language, driver's ed, understanding taxes, understanding basic politics, home financing, Secondary languages (preferably with relevance to our geographical location), college prep, parenting skills.
During the final four years these should be first priority over classes in
Physics, Chemistry, Advanced Mathematics, Advanced Reading/Writing comprehension, Arts, P.E, History, Geography
At the point of reaching high school we all should all have basic understanding of these concepts. They should be seen as electives making way for the skills that will actually keep us afloat after graduation.
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