Why do they drill Newtonian physics?

Question

Why do they drill Newtonian physics in school if General relativity has replaced it and the Ether doesn't exist, the universe isn't constant? Relativity encompasses Newtonian physics doesnt it?

Answer 1

Relativity will get you the same answer but take about 100 times as much computation.
It is useful only for things going at relativistic speeds, which excludes nearly everything sensible to us.

Answer 2

To learn physics you must learn basic concepts of mass,velocity acceleration, energy, momentum, angular momentum, etc, and even more important how to turn real world problems into mathematical equations. Newtonian physics is the part of physics that you have the most real world experience with and therefore most suitable to learn the basic techniques and math. It is also the more useful because most working physicists rarely encounters problems where the complications that even special relativity adds to problems is necessary. Try to solve even a simple pendulum problem using the equations of general relativity

Answer 3

Newtonian physics is useful when dealing with large scale objects and it is much more simple. It works.

Relativity just gives us a clearer and accurate understanding of what is actually going on.

Answer 4

Newtonian physics works!
It got us to the moon.