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Trust your training (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (15 children)

What's with americans and mitochondria ?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (8 children)

It's been so ubiquitous for so long that I honestly don't know where it came from. But most of the time when I hear "the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell" it's being used to take a jab at how impractical our education system is, as though to say, "instead of teaching me about X, they taught me about the mitochondria"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Mitochondria are cool and important.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Hard agree, they are the powerhouse of the cell after all. But also teaching kids how to do things like cook, handle money, and participate in their local government would be more universally applicable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Those are taught in home ec and social science class. How are they supposed to teach you about local government in biology?

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