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I Hate Meaningless Music

Why on earth do us tax payers have to pay for schools to teach arts and music? Like it’s absolutely useless to a child and they won’t ever make money from it, so why not just scrap that stuff and put the money towards better maths and science teaching? Kids don’t need to learn about music or art, they find their own.

Sports is a bit of a waste of money as well. Why waste it on false promises of fame or income, only to find there is none?

No, education should be about working with businesses, companies, getting children to get used to actual skills that people care about and will actually be useful for society and makes money. There is no time or place for things that does not make money or is not interesting to companies, businesses or society.
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CountScrofula · 41-45, M
Arts and music education is about training the mind, discipline, and creative thinking. Not only is it useful for a country to invest in arts because a country without a culture is not a country worth a damn, but it has an indirect benefit to all other forms of learning.

Education is not about just printing out mindless employees out of a mold to make some asshole in a suit a lot of money.
DonaldTrumpet · 70-79, M
@CountScrofula u BiGz smarTz
SW-User
@CountScrofula
Education is not about just printing out mindless employees out of a mold to make some asshole in a suit a lot of money.
I have some bad news for you.
NestChicken · 31-35, M
@SW-User you got it wrong, got it wrong. It’s exactly what you said
NestChicken · 31-35, M
@CountScrofula cultureless and art and humanity, WTF man? That’s the past, the future is getting rid of that and moving forward with science and maths.

Stop dreaming and live in the real world and what it needs
CountScrofula · 41-45, M
@SW-User Eh there's competing forces at work. Asshole in a suits are winning, but you can still get an arts education pretty easily and get yelled at about how you won't make a dime with it.

@NestChicken That's right in the future there will be no music, no pictures, no writing. Just cold hard code and scientific fact.
NestChicken · 31-35, M
@CountScrofula absolutely right. I suggest the men in business suits buy out arts education, privatize it and scrap it. Then just lock up, re-educate or rehabilitate those who’ve had art jobs until they’re capable of being useful and making money
CountScrofula · 41-45, M
@NestChicken I don't think you get how education works.
NestChicken · 31-35, M
@CountScrofula it doesn’t. It’s a waste of time and money