Hypothetical Question

[McPulse]

Imagine, for a moment, that you had the power, by accident or design, to teach the population of your country the senior school syllabus for a particular subject over two years (the time it would take to study it normally). Which subjects would you teach, and which would you avoid?

On one hand, it might be nice if everyone had an idea of how desalination works. On the other, a nation full of people who know how to make bombs is probably not a good thing. Would you teach everyone film and television, and have a nation full of film critics? Would you teach everyone High Level Maths and have a nation with a chief export of professionals?

Which subjects would you teach, and which would you avoid?

 

[MR T3D]

Common sense and decency, general manners.
that's the one thing people actually need.

 

[MR T3D]

Consumerism and/or marketing.
Make people aware of what and why they do and buy what they do and buy.

Yeah, double post, damn capatcha ate my first comment, and I changed up this one, but alas, it spat it out.

Regard both equally.

 

[Seaf The Troll]

well I would teach Morals and Understanding. and avoid Sports

lol.. make a better place for all of us..

naa i will teach them all self impalement, sword style.. darn kids of today! lol

 

[Cherry Cola]

I'd teach everyone recess and holiday

 

[iblis666]

hmm probably high lvl accounting and physics since i have a theory that the more physics people know the less likely they are to be fuck tards in other areas such as jumping in dumpsters from the 4th story because they saw it on tv

 

[Verlander]

I dunno about forced learning, but the one thing the world needs to get on NOW is making computer sciences a primary subject. The fact that most people not only use, but invest all of their personal information on these connected machines, that only the extreme few actually understand, is mind bogglingly ridiculous. Computer sciences are now more important than the majority of school subjects, yet still aren't being taught properly.

It's be nice to make people courteous, although that's not a subject. I think a language, greater communication and respect to other cultures is as close to courtesy as you can academically get.

 

[iLikeHippos]

I'd teach them the disciplines and respectful ways the Japs have, the codes of the native Indians and that talent is crafted; not inherited.

We'd have a much brighter world, for sure.

 

[McPulse]

So is there a moral issue with the forced learning? Does subconsciously tricking these people into.. well... enlightenment, a bad thing?