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And they have utterly dumbed down college so that you come out knowing less, and they still can’t hack it. When moronials see me fix something basic or work on my car, or use mathematics to solve a problem (even just simple algebra that should have been autonomic by 8th grade) they look at me like I am some kind of magical wizard existing on a distant plane

I have tutored a lot of my freinds kids over the years in all levels of math from high school algebra, to calc, diff eq, Finite element analysis, statistics, and basic sciences such as physics, and chemistry, as well as a lot of programming. (Side note, moronials seem to be baffled at how I can “deny science). Anyway, I remember a particular time I was asked for help in how to graph rational equations... basically graph stuff like y = (x + 2) / ( x^2 + 3x + 2). Apparently he, and most of his class had been struggling with it for weeks. It looks scary, I know, but it actually is very easy to do this if you approach it correctly with a couple simple steps. Of course, I asked him to explain to me exactly how his teacher explained how to do this in detail. I received the most complicated treatIse of gobbledygook I had ever heard in my life and it was obvious why the class couldn’t get it. So I showed him patiently. Step 1 —-short simple and explanation why, step 2 and 3 the same. Every time I do this, on e they get past the not listening stage because they are convinced it is too hard and all they hear is static. Then they see you get the right answer in seconds. Then they all get that same skeptical look like you are somehow defying the laws of physics. Then they successfully do a problem or two while shaking their heads in disbelief and every one of them always sais “it can’t possibly be that easy”. Then they pull up harder ones to find a flaw or exception. At the end they are just stunned that something so impossible an hour ago is so trivial. I tell them to that to cement their knowledge, teach 3 of their freinds how to do this. They ask me why their teacher didn’t just explain it that way in the first place, I always respond that their teachers are democrats and an ignorant population is much easier to control