whycantifinditYeah that's true but I knew how to read in first grade. I knew how to google shit by the time I was 7 years old. Like everything I've ever done that has interested me and may someday get me a job has been my own personal interests, with no inspiration from school. I've done my own research and done what I came to do. I build skis now, but no thanks to school. Everything I've learned about useful stuff happened before 8th grade in school or came from google.
You expect your school to teach you how to build skis? Give me a fucking break.
You learn math so you can do your taxes and balance your check book. It's not rocket science, it's basic fucking arithmetic.
Wood-shop taught you how to use a ban-saw and a planer, so now you can make skis.
English taught you how to read and write you could sound intelligent when you pitch your ski company to an investor.
History taught you to be cultured, to understand the diversity in the world before you and around you.
Your education gave you basic skills and the ability to think deeper and more critically. You want to learn how to do taxes? Go get a tax degree, or pay to have someone do it for you. That's what they're there for.
Holy shit, that argument drives me fucking insane. School is school, stop acting like educators have to hold your hand, or that everything you do in school has to perfectly align you for life outside of school. You take the SATs so you can get into a good college and pursue a higher level of education that will provide you with a degree and qualify you for a specific career path.
Educators shouldn't have to teach you how to do your taxes.
/RANT.
Not even directed at you either, just that argument in general. Kudos to you for making your own skis, definitely something I would have loved to pursue!