Timeline for Why does Battle School train kids in physical combat when it's irrelevant to the ultimate goal?
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| Apr 22, 2017 at 2:52 | vote | accept | Thunderforge | ||
| Apr 21, 2017 at 20:11 | comment | added | TylerH | @Thunderforge On a side note there is lots of scientific literature published that has found a positive correlation between physical fitness and mental fitness. E.g. poor physical fitness leads to poor mental fitness. This exercise instills the need for a clear strategy/plan ahead of time. If the commander doesn't understand what the heat of battle can be like, it will be hard for him to make plans that rely on individual soldiers to carry out dependably. Kind of like economists predicting what markets will do being based on people behaving rationally: sound idea, an absolute joke in practice. | |
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| Apr 21, 2017 at 5:08 | answer | added | Loren Pechtel | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 21, 2017 at 1:39 | answer | added | user31178 | timeline score: 19 | |
| Apr 21, 2017 at 0:58 | answer | added | Glen_b | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 20, 2017 at 22:45 | answer | added | Asa Guest | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 20, 2017 at 21:21 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSciFi/status/855169517504397312 | ||
| Apr 20, 2017 at 20:00 | comment | added | Thunderforge | @FighterJet I'm probably only going to accept an in-universe answer, but I still think answers like this are valuable and worth upvotes. | |
| Apr 20, 2017 at 18:39 | comment | added | user72928 | @Thun: the reason I posted it as a comment is because I don't have time to write a proper answer at the moment. I figured if somebody knows more about it, it might trigger them to write one instead. Plus, you only wanted in-universe answers. I might have a stab at it on the weekend. | |
| Apr 20, 2017 at 18:03 | comment | added | HopelessN00b | Who do militaries still practice formation marching, when it's been irrelevant to combat for at least 150 years (or has never been relevant in the case of navies and air forces)? Seems like you'd have a lot of overlap with that question and yours. | |
| Apr 20, 2017 at 17:25 | comment | added | Thunderforge | @FighterJet Would you like to add that as an answer, along with a reference? Partial answers are discouraged in comments. | |
| Apr 20, 2017 at 17:21 | comment | added | user72928 | The out-of-universe answer is that Ender's Game grew out of the Battle School, and not the other way around. Apparently Scott Card dreamed up the idea of a "battle school" a decade or two before he wrote the short story, and then the novel. | |
| Apr 20, 2017 at 14:04 | comment | added | ibid | @Valorum - I.F. Common seems to be based on American English so I'm afraid that'll be "math". | |
| Apr 20, 2017 at 12:58 | answer | added | anaximander | timeline score: 70 | |
| Apr 20, 2017 at 9:58 | comment | added | Valorum | It's made clear that they do also do the other stuff; maths, science, history, etc | |
| Apr 20, 2017 at 8:10 | answer | added | Gaultheria | timeline score: 24 | |
| Apr 20, 2017 at 8:09 | answer | added | ibid | timeline score: 85 | |
| Apr 20, 2017 at 7:20 | comment | added | MichaelK | I know that is what you looked for @Thunderforge. I just wanted to point out that sometimes things make it into a story for author convenience rather than being motivated in-universe. | |
| Apr 20, 2017 at 7:15 | comment | added | Thunderforge | @MichaelKarnerfors I'm more interested in the in-universe explanation for this. Besides this is different in that Ender was trained with this game to become a fleet commander, whereas Harry and Katniss didn't plan on their skills being anything more than fun diversions. | |
| Apr 20, 2017 at 7:14 | comment | added | Andrew Thompson | I saw the point as being to develop tactical skills where the players might actually care about their team members (at least to some small extent). This caused Ender to 'harden up' and come to the conclusion that sacrificing some of your own team / soldiers was justifiable in order to win a battle or the war. Of course the hardening up seemed to ..not work for Ender once it came down to it. But hey, they (the high level commanders) pretty much achieved their ultimate goal. | |
| Apr 20, 2017 at 7:01 | comment | added | MichaelK | This is a convenient trope, used by the author to establish the protagonist as The Ace without having to outright say "Oh they are so awesome you just won't believe how utterly awesome they are!". Compare for instance Quidditch in Harry Potter, archery in Hunger Games... | |
| Apr 20, 2017 at 6:40 | history | asked | Thunderforge | CC BY-SA 3.0 |