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Except education is not general, it is hyperfocused on topics that lead into higher education.
I can agree with that to a certain extent, but how is math not general? How is understanding characters from a book not general?
The general math and reading skills I learned stopped at 8th grade(or earlier in the case of English)
I didn't need to write a 10 page paper on 3D trig for general math. Nor how to transpose a matrix.
I didn't need to learn about, well actually in English I didn't learn anything, we just kept doing the same imagery fan theorizing from 8th grade to graduation.
Once I got to college and took real critical thinking classes in philosophy I was shocked at how pathetic the English classes were where we imitated the tools and concepts we would learn and apply in college. I think that people who study English do not learn critical thinking well enough in most cases and are better at teaching composition and the reading of fictional stories.