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Oh no! Romeo and Juliet! We had to compare Romeo and Juliet to West Side Story, was it 11th grade? What a bore! Tau Zero by Poul Anderson was about Einsteinian physics. Of course that wasn't school work.

I have often wondered how many high school English teachers took 4 years of math when they were in high school. Math was way more FUN than EngLit.

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Critical thinking skills:

Shouldn't mandatory accounting in the schools matter? Is the objective making money or individuals making themselves better off economically? How many high school graduates can explain what Net Worth is?

A sales manager from a major corporation told me, "I liked for my salesmen to be in debt because it made them hustle." Are schools designed to produce brainwashed workers?

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