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To: IrishBrigade

If you say so!

As you say you’ve not a done a geometric proof not picked up a test tube. I guarantee you’ve applied the principles those classes taught.


82 posted on 09/27/2022 11:36:49 AM PDT by Reily
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To: Reily

‘I guarantee you’ve applied the principles those classes taught.’

of what value, then, is a set of principles forced on a student to the extent he suffers failure and humiliation if it cannot be impressed on the student that the same set is in fact inadvertantly useful in future endeavors...? .

schools are not, or at least were not, unaware of student imdividual proclivities; it seems stodgy adherence to a curriculum requiring the difficuties encountered in higher math be mastered is counterproductive...

my mathematical necessities were more than adequately addressed by arithmetic, which forced me to think long and hard, using such things as logic and deductive reasoning...


89 posted on 09/27/2022 12:01:21 PM PDT by IrishBrigade
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