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OniRonin posted...

ok let me help you make your argument for you.....

if you want to appeal to an authority figure, at the very least you need to establish why their authority in the subject should be trusted, and that they believe what you say they believe. you haven't even pointed out a specific authority figures. you just said 'it works like X, therefore X must be what the experts decided we should do'. that argument would work for defending the status quo in any situation

for example, your argument would be a great case against teaching evolution 80 years ago

The reason the authority figure should be trust is because they are an expert in their field. Most likely, they found which subjects needed to be learn based on studying children, and studying different career paths and course, and decided those were the things children needed to learn about. Like learning about history, which is important to know how the world got to where it is today, and why we do things the way we do. Those experts have probably changed throughout the years, as they do. Which is why schools to this day, are always altering school courses. Yet, through all this altering, they still have whats considered the core classes as whoever is studying what needs to be studied hasnt said that history is obsolete or useless. Not knowing the experts doesnt make the argument obsolete. Especially since, like I said, they are constantly changing...
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