• The Dark Lord ☑️@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    I actually agree with you. I can read an analog clock, but what worth is the skill? Most clocks are digital, and it gives me nothing more to read an analog one. People downvoting you is just silly. Some skills are allowed to die out if they add no value in modern life.

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      4 months ago

      Someone else made a comment and I think it’s great so imma plagiarize it-

      If kids are taught to read an analog clock early, which isn’t very hard to learn, they are getting a leg up on fractions, percentages, and geometry.

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        4 months ago

        I don’t actually believe this is true.

        It rather, I imagine that they could get an even greater leg up if that time was spent teaching something else

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      4 months ago

      I wonder how many people feel this way about writing when everyone just types/texts everything.

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          4 months ago

          How so?

          I genuinely don’t understand the clock-face-reading-is-a-useless-skill opinion so both seem equally important to me.

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            4 months ago

            Fair enough. Most people don’t encounter analog clocks anymore. And many of us have smart watches or phones where we check the time. Since I have a non-analog watch, I don’t find I ever look at analog clocks anymore. If it’s in a room, I just don’t notice it. Growing up, it was important to know, but now I just never have a use for it. Learning is important, but there are so many more interesting and useful things to learn.

            You could also make an argument about automatic or manual cars. Sure, we could teach our kids how to drive manual, but why? Most cars are automatic. If they want to have a manual car, they can learn. Otherwise it’s just a useless skill.

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              4 months ago

              Yea that’s kind of what I was thinking when I said eventually handwriting will go the same way.

              If people never encounter it and do all their writing on keyboards, it’ll eventually be a useless skill as well.

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                4 months ago

                Exactly. I find that I sign the back of checks and write brief sentences in birthday cards. Neither of those feel like they’ll be around for a lot longer.