Topic: What is being told to people in High Schools about Bitcoin - page 9. (Read 9733 times)

I think is take some time to add new content in courses, normally they need to get approved. The school teaches you the basic, but you need to learn a lot by yourself in the real world with real experience.

In the case of bitcoins, if you want to learn, plenty of good books are now available on the subject. My philosophy, don't wait to learn something if you are really interested in it!

Bitcoin is not tackle in High School well specifically in my country, proof is that even a high school teacher does not know what bitcoin is , funny right? And there is no curriculum in high school that gives way to discuss about bitcoin. 

First time I read that I felt angry because the teacher of economics was so uninformed and backward from the era we live. Secondly, I was starting to laugh because his arguments focus on illegal activities using the internet; So, if the adoption of cryptocurrencies is so difficult for a teacher then how we hope that other people less educated would be persuaded to use it instead of fiat money?

well the teacher doesnt know about bitcoin.

It's too bad to here about that. Anyway, my country does not care about Bitcoin so basically in high schools, no one ever teach about it. And unsurprisingly, the majority of teachers does not even know what is Bitcoin. It is very hilarious. I still wonder how can Bitcoin become a part of my country in the future

It should come as no surprise that the teacher hasn't a clue. I teach science and at most schools the science is taught by someone with teaching "expertise" but no science background at all. The same is surely true for economics. If that teacher knew about economics s/he would never have pursued a teaching degree.
For those who have not been school in the last 15-20 years you might be shocked to see how much it has changed, and not for the better. All that money that politicians were going to save you by divesting in education is now revealing that, while education is expensive, stupid is even more costly. 

My students get to learn the truth about bitcoin and other stuff, but man do they pay for it. The private schools I teach at charge as much as $90,000 for a 6th. grade education.

Five days ago, a friend of mine studying Economics at High School had a discussion with its teacher, regarding Bitcoin, since I told her about that. Here's what the teacher said :

1. That's illegal : He did not bring many proves here, just saying that since it has not been regulated as a currency, we were in a grey area, and something in a grey area is rarely something that will become totally white from one day to another. He added that the sole purpose of that was to buy all kind of drugs over the Internet.

2. It will crash : He said that he had studied Bitcoin's price evolution throught the time (what I doubt) and said her that being so constantly rising was a sign that it was not a viable project. Its proof : manipulated prices of things like silver or wheat are very stable !

3. Anyone clear in its head wouldn't use it : First, he doesn't recognise any kind of manipulation of the money and the danger that there is for people keeping all their savings in fiat. I know that because I had him as a teacher too some times ago. So trying to explaining him about the fact that there is a clear war against cash and evident facts, like that that shows our money need to be converted into something viable to be protected from massive surveillance, is useless. Him not understanding that, since its the best argument I have, I couldn't have replied. When she told him about the speed of transactions, he replied "we have PayPal", so I said me that it wasn't worth to ever try explaining anything. As a final point, he said again that the sole real use that is making standing apart is that you can buy drugs on the Internet...

4. Bitcoin at a bigger scale would fail : I couldn't explain you much what he said because what she told me wasn't very clear so I personnally did not understood, as her I presume how confuse her explaination was. To summarize, he said that it's still a little market and that it will fail to scale and will go back to close to nothing in value.

I'd like to get your feelings on that. Just call the arguments 1, 2, 3 and 4 and tell me what you would have replied back and what it does inspire you !

Wow, schools are really damn ignorant about bitcoins and they teach kids these? I hope it's not the governments that control these schools and they don't order schools to teach this. For sure if this was a country wide thing, then the government is in on it. They judge it and teach false statements about something they don't even try to know about, for sure they will teach something wrong.

My students get to learn the truth about bitcoin and other stuff, but man do they pay for it. The private schools I teach at charge as much as $90,000 for a 6th. grade education.

It is clear that the teacher doesn't have a depth understanding of the topic but what really intrigues me is  how can a teacher discuss a one sided topic  . A teacher must discuss it without bias and prejudice . It is most likely that bitcoin will have a bad impression to the students even though they dont know it well

Well,that's what's the mainstream media and society is about.It will always present the things not in the right order and we experience that every day all around us.That's why we are the people that should represent BTC in a positive light.We should be the ones spreading the positives about BTC and only then more people will start actually associating BTC with positives.