20-fold increase in standardized testing coming with Gates Foundation's "Common Core":

[boppers]

158. Maybe that was the purposes of *your* education.

And maybe that says a lot about the purpose of school, as seen by different people.

I agree that it's entirely needed to understand prior knowledge to build on the "shoulders of giants" (which, BTW, was a cruel and snarky joke), but one does not need a history of creationism to understand the science of genetics.... sure, you may need it if your field is the public policy of genetics, but if your field is gentic engineering, all the bible study in the world is a total waste of time and energy...

...and that is what a large part of education has become. Not just books filled with myths about god, but books filled with myths about culture, identity, physics, etc.

Example: You have probably been lied to about the following question:
"If you drop a 6 pound ball, and a 12 pound ball from the same height, to the earth, which will land fastest?"

The 12 pound ball will win, every time. Every. Single. Time.

Most people were taught lies about gravity, by teachers who are not physicists. The teachers teach what they've been taught, and that's often filled with absurd superstitions.

You know why the 12 pound ball will win? It has more mass, and it's own gravity field. It pulls the earth as the earth pulls back. Drop the balls from the orbit of Neptune, and you can get almost a second of difference between the two balls.

Meanwhile, teachers continue to teach falsehoods, because, well, that's what they were taught. It's the same reason people are *still* being taught to put two spaces after a period... the teachers aren't educating, they're imparting faith in the same religious beliefs that they were taught. Science tell us that a photon likely has a very small mass,that we cannot measure yet, but most schools still teach a theory of light from the 1900's, where light has no mass.