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今天，Lady Lion 为大家带来航天软件工程发烧友Bandara John的教育故事，他提出：教育决定了我们会成为什么样的人（少数人除外）。你觉得呢？

下面是Bandara John观点的中文版：

教育基本上决定了我们会成为什么样的人，当然少数人除外。

我梦想成为一名飞行员，或航空工程师。然而，由于教育系统的种种原因，我不得不放弃自己的梦想，最后做了一名程序员。

我认为，教育是一项必不可少的事业，但需要搞清楚，当今社会我们需要什么样的教育。引用一个段子：

“税收是什么？我怎么计算和支付正确的金额？不要担心, 线粒体是细胞的发电所（注：此为美国的段子，意指学校里教的东西并没有太大实用性）。” 所以，你所学的一切都是无用的。我们在学校里学的那些无用的科目，并不能让我们在生活中活的很好。

例如，你在学校学过这些吗：

• 1.    如何缴税？

• 2.    怎么换轮胎？

• 3.    怎么判断汽车的状况是可以安全行驶的？

• 4.    怎么知道你的家里没有隐患？

• 5.    如何编写有效的营销广告或官方文件？

• 6.    怎么找到合适且公正的咨询？

• 7.    怎么安排饭食（不是说烹饪课）？

• 8.    怎么检查家里的电力系统？

在我们的教育系统里，老师被迫向学生灌输一些“教育专家”认为对成长中的孩子有用的信息，然而，这些信息可能并不是孩子们实际需要的。这样做只会把孩子们培养得像块木头，而不是一个完整的人。

所以，我们的教育系统必须得变得更加友好，不要剥夺了孩子的童年。

Education is the base of what we become except a very few rare cases. As for me, I wanted to become a pilot or an aeronautical engineer，basically what happens in our education system is but unfortunately due to various reasons I had to divert from that course and I ended up as a hardcore programmer.

Education is necessary but we must decide what type of education is needed nowadays. Quoting a meme I saw:

“What are taxes and how do I calculate and pay the correct amount? Don’t worry mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. ”

So everything you learn is not useful. We learn multiple useless subjects in school but nothing that well support us in real life. 

Just for an example have you been taught at school

1. How to do taxes?

2. How to change a tire?

3. How to tell if your car is running okay?

4. How to tell if your house is doing okay?

5. How to write an effective advertisement or any official document?

6. How to seek proper and just legal advice?

7. How to prepare a basic meal or anything (Not cooking class )

8. How to check the electric system of your house?

Basically what happens in our education system is that teachers are forced to pump information about thing that “Education Experts” think are necessary for a growing child. Not what an actual child needs. Every horse s**t information and fact that they seem fit are pumped into the child's brain making the child more zombielike than a human being.

So this system must be changed into something a bit more friendly to children without robbing their childhood from them.

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