Do you believe it's reasonable to think you'll retain information delivered via lecture about something you absolutely do not care about? Do you believe it's a character defect if you fail to? If so, why?
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When my eldest daughter starting doing column subtraction at school I swear to God I had forgotten how.
You probably largely did. I recently realized I'd completely forgotten long division. Any number of devices we surround ourselves with (including phones) perform these operations better than we can, and most of the time we don't even need that kind of accuracy
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But the concept that a division problem has a solution, which is the inverse of a multiplication problem, you still carry with you. The time spent doing long division taught you that, as well as accuracy and perseverance.
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