/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9743244
There are adults, especially in the third world, who cannot understand organigrams, who are not able to understand written instructions because they are literally not able to get their head around the idea that a piece of paper can contain orders.

Schools teach kids abstract thinking, they do not need the ability to interpret a poem or division of polynomials, they need the ability to grasp abstract concepts. They need the ability that I give them an official document or instructions or legal document or technical documentation for their shitty office job and they can understand it. This ability alone makes them intelectually more able than 2/3 of all the humans on this planet.

Learning stuff by the text book has proven for decades to produce people who are able to think abstractly enough to function in our highly literal society, that they do not develop any interest or intuition for it is neither required nor wished for or even beneficial.