Misogyny is to misandry as illiteracy is to innumeracy. Nearly everyone understands that misogyny and illiteracy are undesirable, without which the world would be better. By contrast, among some of the chattering class, both misandry and innumeracy have a strange, ugly cachet.
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I was thinking more in application. I use Excel constantly which is basically an algebra program. No teacher in high school could ever tell me why Algebra is useful, but without it everything I do would be 20 times more complicated.
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And I’m not a computer programmer or engineer, I’m a high school dropout who’s done sales and energy efficiency for the last 15 years.
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You’ve summarized well how bad most formal education is. Many of my best students were people who had been told by school that they were stupid. Some had spent years framing houses, driving forklifts—engaging the physical world, whose feedback doesn’t lie.
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It may become socially unacceptable at diverging points. E.g. Most would be equally embarrassed to say they can't read at a 2nd grade level vs can't do 2nd grade math. But would most be embarrassed by a high school vocabulary/read level vs HS math level? IDK.
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Further, we are constantly surrounded by words written and spoken at varying levels. We aren't constantly presented with algebra, trigonometry, geometry or calculus. Or at least the vast majority arent.
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