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Originally Posted by Schneed10
Stuff like this cracks me up. Knowing American historical facts like which battle ended the Revolutionary War, while an interesting fact that makes you well-balanced, has absolutely nothing to do with your ability to go forth and be productive in the workplace. The only profession in which this information is of any use is teaching.
People with Harvard degrees are highly paid because they can think through real problems in the workplace and enact plans to solve them.
If you can do well on this test, great. Congratulations, you've memorized a bunch of facts. But exactly how valuable a use of your time was it to memorize all that stuff?
Not trying to dump on any history majors out there. But to me, doing well on this test means jack diddily squat.
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Thats what I told my mom when I was in school but it never seemed to sink in and I guess it didn't help that she was my history teacher in 6th grade.