Do we need to be able to write since keyboards are the way to communicate?
Do manual arithmetic?
Spell?
Drive a car?
Sew?
Some of that stuff seems a necessary skill set to people like me but I recently looked at a cook book handed down from my mother and she didn't get it new.
A century a go a woman (Sexism) not only needed to know the recipe but also how to get the right heat from the stove. The old cookbook instructs how much firewood to put in and how to handle it to get different temperatures. Technology changed that.
With the early cars one needed to know how to adjust the advance, shift gears, etc.
The survivalist in me says we need to know the math and writing but do we really need it any more than knowing spark advance or wood stove technology?
Do manual arithmetic?
Spell?
Drive a car?
Sew?
Some of that stuff seems a necessary skill set to people like me but I recently looked at a cook book handed down from my mother and she didn't get it new.
A century a go a woman (Sexism) not only needed to know the recipe but also how to get the right heat from the stove. The old cookbook instructs how much firewood to put in and how to handle it to get different temperatures. Technology changed that.
With the early cars one needed to know how to adjust the advance, shift gears, etc.
The survivalist in me says we need to know the math and writing but do we really need it any more than knowing spark advance or wood stove technology?