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I actually agree with you. I can read an analog clock, but what worth is the skill? Most clocks are digital, and it gives me nothing more to read an analog one. People downvoting you is just silly. Some skills are allowed to die out if they add no value in modern life.

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Someone else made a comment and I think it’s great so imma plagiarize it-

If kids are taught to read an analog clock early, which isn’t very hard to learn, they are getting a leg up on fractions, percentages, and geometry.

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I don’t actually believe this is true.

It rather, I imagine that they could get an even greater leg up if that time was spent teaching something else

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Yeah, same for me

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I wonder how many people feel this way about writing when everyone just types/texts everything.

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There are fewer and fewer applications for writing, but it’s still more important than reading an analog clock.

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How so?

I genuinely don’t understand the clock-face-reading-is-a-useless-skill opinion so both seem equally important to me.

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