I appreciate she's asking questions about the topic. I don't understand math at all, never did, and I counted myself lucky to pass math with a C-. I hated it all with the burning intensity of a thousand white-hot suns
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Replying to @suburbanbeatnik @arthur_affect
to me, it was all... blah blah blah blah GINGER blah blah blah blahpic.twitter.com/Ig2iwKz9BL
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Replying to @suburbanbeatnik
Yeah and I dunno on some level that's fine You're a grownup now and you're living your life and you know all the things you need to know to live it, more or less
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Replying to @arthur_affect @suburbanbeatnik
Lockhart's Lament is partly him just getting mad and asking what the point of math class is at all Like the traditionalists say the really important thing isn't all this highfalutin philosophical bullshit, it's whether you can work out the square root of 7 with a pencil if asked
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Replying to @arthur_affect @suburbanbeatnik
And Lockhart is just like "Well they can't Most people don't remember how to do any of that shit after they're out of school for like two years It's a total fucking waste of time and money already so why yell at me that my version of math education is 'impractical'"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @suburbanbeatnik
"The kids are right, most of them are just going to become English majors and rely on a calculator"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @suburbanbeatnik
It's a lot like bad piano lessons Like a lot of bad music teachers actually don't really teach you to love music or understand it on any real level They just kind of torture you through playing Für Elise badly and by rote until you get through it with "no mistakes"
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I don't think I could even tell you what a square root is.
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Replying to @suburbanbeatnik @arthur_affect
Anyway, so my big math education story: I nearly failed algebra. I go to my mother and point this out and say I don't understand it at all. She shrugs and says "you'll do better at geometry, you're a visual learner like me, that'll make sense to you!" Narrator: it didn't
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Replying to @suburbanbeatnik @arthur_affect
I pointed this out to my mother, and her only response was to shrug again I was EXTREMELY frustrated
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A lot of adults are basically pressured to lie to kids that these parts of their education are valuable when in reality the adults know full well they just let all that shit evaporate from their minds the moment they graduated too
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