Quote Originally Posted by coledog855
I think you guys use a lot more of what you learned that you think you do. In school, you learn a subject, and you also learn how to think about that subject. Learning math teaches you how to think in steps and theories. Learning science teaches you how to problem solve, and even morally (scientific method is the same thing we do when making moral considerations). Languages teaches you how to convert thoughts into other thoughts at a fast pace. PE teaches you self motivation and team work. Art teaches you how to express your creativity.

If we don't force kids to learn a broad amount of subjects, then they truly will never find their talents, most of the time. How many adults now are doing something other than what they wanted to be when they were a kid? Most of them. If we just let kids study whatever they wanted, then we wouldn't have many mathematicians, chemists, engineers. We would have a lot more astronauts, fire fighters, and vets though.
Because the only way to learn to think is in school. Because the only way to learn how to be artistic is in art class. Because helping people is impossible unless you take PE, right? People don't decide what they want to be in school. Schools don't teach kids how to do taxes, how to be police officers, how to sit at a desk slaving away in front of a computer. As people grow older they start to learn the kinds of things they enjoy and base their career decisions off of those.