Unpopular Opinion
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Spoken like a non engineer trying to justify bad life decisions. Calulas was far more valuable to me than the spanish I took.
language does not give perspective. It makes it a little easier to consume some content or talk to some people. However if you don't put forth the effort you won't get that, mean while if you care to put forth the effort you don't need to speak other languages to get perspectives. there are more perspectives from native english speakers than you will be able to consume
Bruh, if anyone sounds like STEM-bro, it's you.
Source:
-You
https://www.cambridge.org/elt/blog/2022/04/29/learning-language-changes-your-brain/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3583091/
I'm a senior software engineer and my math skills is shit.
I'm here to tell any future programmers, being bad at Advanced math like Calculus should not stop you.
I'm getting a bs degree in the sciences and use trig almost every day lol. Thanks for the personal attack though, really classy.
All I wanted to point out is that school teaches a lot of things. Some may be relevant, some may not. But that's not a reason to not teach it. For instance, I took bio and rarely need that info. But that doesn't mean it wasn't valuable, or that it shouldn't be taught. Same thing with language. It doesn't need to help everyone to be part of a school curriculum.
Huh