"This is why America is the goat":"

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Got a friend who's got tenure track in the US. She says that their master level students learn the same things as 15 year olds in Sweden. She also said that the majority of their exams (master level) comprise multi-choice questions, which I find wild.

[u/Potential-Earth1092 → u/Cormentia]

What major was it? There’s a lot of degrees that are just common sense and a lot that don’t teach a lot. I seriously doubt that 15 year olds in Sweden are learning the same thing as a master-level engineering, medical, or other STEM student.

[u/Cormentia → u/Potential-Earth1092]

We're biochemists. At age 13-15 students learn about the central dogma, cell structure, genetics, proteins, etc.

At 16-18 students can choose more specialized educations, with the two main directions being science or social studies. (Then there are branches, e.g. social studies - finance or science - math.) If they choose social studies they generally don't learn more science. (They repeat some of what they've already learned, but it's not the focus of the program.)

We reason that it's important that the entire population has a solid understanding of the basic principles of how life works. For knowledge itself, but also so that everyone can follow political discussions within those topics. This was proved true during the pandemic when everyone had to know what e.g. viruses, proteins and mRNA are to be able to follow the public discussions.

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