[UltraSearchs]

It's all a waste of time. Kids are stupid.

[Nurba]

Vet:

I meant to ask you... what is up with your posts and how they don't go across the screen? Are you typing your posts in Notepad or something first then copy and pasting them here?


And we had a choice of Philosophy or Drama in my high school (#45 in the country by US News & World Report! Thanks HC and Kuci for encouraging my research! Also seen in the M. Night Shyamalan film, "The Happening"). While I admit the Philosophy went over most people's heads (including mine for the most part), the format of the class with it being discussion and essay oriented is a good preview for college.

[Grarypealumma]

Should Evolutionary Psychology Be Taught Instead of Philosophy?

Simple question. Elaborate if you have to.

In my country, certain demographics (kids in high-schools that don't
teach you a trade but are preparing you for university instead) are
taught philosophy for a year or two.

It's waste of time in my opinion. Simply too abstract and obscure for
kids to understand. Teaching philosophy should be abolished and
the time slot allotted to these two things:

1. Teaching kids principles of anarchy
2. Teaching kids evolutionary psychology

Agree?

1. What are "principles of anarchy"?
2. How is evolutionary psychology any less useless than philosophy?

[johobuo]

Braaaiinnnnsss!

[Qncvqpgfg]

@Vetlegion: I don't get the anarchy bit. Can you elaborate?

[flanna.kersting]

No one should ever waste educational time on something as useless as philosophy. I actually have an acquaintance who is studying philosophy and he is 35, still lives at home with his parents (he's never once moved out), and hasn't had a job in 10 years. He sits around all day smoking pot, spending his student aid money on drugs and hookers, and generally whining that the government hasn't given him enough money to sit on his ass for decades at a time. This is totally true. Anyone who can't graduate in 17 years is a loser and probably is studying philosophy because every other department kicked his ass out. I know this is true with the guy I know.

[TornadoPD]

Evolutionary Psychology = How to make your racism and sexism sound "sciency"

So, no.

Even if that's your view it's still better than evolutionary psychology.

You do realize that Heraclitus =/= Evopsych right?

[KacypeJeope]

Evolutionary Psychology :facepalm:

having a marxism class would be time better spent than that...

[kvitacencia]

Evolutionary Psychology = How to make your racism and sexism sound "sciency"

So, no.

Not necessarily so. That said, most of what I read isn't very good. Some of it even pseudoscience, IMO: the authors demonstrating a feeble understanding of evolutionary theory.

[Immampdah]

He sits around all day smoking pot, spending his student aid money on drugs and hookers,

Nice work if you can get it.

[carinsurancess]

I'm generally in agreement with much of what VJ says, except for the slamming-psychology bit. However, I'm aware that the liberal arts in general are vulnerable to such attacks; my studies of Shakespeare are pretty damned useless in a practical sense too.

[Kinds Of Pain Meds]

1. What are "principles of anarchy"?

Well, I don't really know. But I wish kids got some sort of education
that would not turn them into statists. The state should do this, the state
should do that, the state is omnipotent, good, benevolent... approximately
90% of the people around here expect the state to do everything. I'm tired
of that crap.

Kids should be taught, at least for a while, that there are self-organizing
solutions to many, in fact most, problems of a society. They should exit
the educational system with knowledge about the alternatives to Big State.

They are not taught that at all.

This ties into evolutionary psychology. Humans have evolved to be communists,
it's in our genes. So if you let kids develop their own instinct-based political
convictions, they end up statists.

[Inconykic]

Vet:

I meant to ask you... what is up with your posts and how they don't go across the screen? Are you typing your posts in Notepad or something first then copy and pasting them here?

Take the book nearest to you, open it, it has approximately 60-80
characters per line of text. This was arrived at through experimentation
as the upper limit for usability of text. Newspaper articles are divided
into columns that are even narrower. This aids reading. Today's monitors
are very wide and browsers tend to stretch forum posts from side to
side. I break up the lines of my posts on purpose, to make them easier
to read.

[Amoniustauns]

he he... I am back here, so I think we will meet before when I go to Zagreb, (not very often though)...

in any case EP

[AndrewBoss]

Wow. Actually I have noticed since I got a new laptop last week (1920x1080 resolution) that it is a lot harder to read forum postings than it used to be on my ancient old computer.

Good thinking. Thanks for the consideration.

+1

This is one of those simple things you
think you would remember to think of
on your own but don't.

[Plulpangepler]

I have yet to hear a useful thing or an invention discovered during the past 100 years which was invented thanks to philosophy. This is like *****ing and moaning about how english lit has spurned the 'ode to a parabolic function."

[UlceskLialels]

It's called 'diversifying'.

I am one of those folks who believes you should have a profession and a trade.