Dec 18 2012: I agree with you Mike, I feel like we all are in this together but instead choose to point fingers and accuse others for something we ourselves must change.
Dec 13 2012: The point of any education is to provide tools and knowledge essential to survival and coexisting with life in general. I find that psychology provides us with the tools and knowledge to be successful beyond the superficial sense of getting money and being able to buy a lot of things. Psychology helps build a more confident and rational human, that is why I believe anyone from any age can and should study this subject. Obviously any ten year old will not be able to understand Sigmund Freud's deepest and most controversial ideas, but like any subject the student will gradually with the years grow with it and then will be able to advance in psychology. If happiness is not what people actually seek in life, then what is it?
Dec 13 2012: I'm somewhat confused with your view of psychology. Even though it may not be the most rigorous of the sciences compared to biology, chemistry or physics, does it make it less important to society and the educational system? The point I was trying to get across with this conversation is that essentially psychology helps the human species better understand what they are and how they operate. Even though the study of psychology does not prepare a person to find a cure to cancer or build a robot, and it is definitely not the only way to be happier, yet it does help.
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