[FatherofFive]

My aim is not to spare students from a difficult subject, but to call attention to the real problems we are causing by misdirecting precious resources.

We send far to many 'precious resources' to college when they can't do basic math. Where they waste 4 years.

We went to the moon not because it was easy, but because it was hard.

[chainsaw]

We send far to many ‘precious resources’ to college when they can’t do basic math. Where they waste 4 years.

In my opinion many teachers don’t know how to teach the subject. In high school I just made a passing grade in algebra. However, in algebra I in college, I had a teacher with a masters degree in the subject. During each class she went through the one problem she assigned for homework, She took the next entire class period to explain that one problem going back to the very basic principles of algebra. By the end of the semester, I think everybody in the class mastered the subject. I received an A.

Without that course I never would have passed pharmacology in dental school