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Not being taught by school teachers can actually be more beneficial than being taught badly. When nobody taints your experience with a particular subject and yo
by tqkxzugoaupvwqr 9y ago
Not being taught by school teachers can actually be more beneficial than being taught badly. When nobody taints your experience with a particular subject and you attack the problem yourself, you start neutral. It is curiosity and discipline that drives you forward. If, on the other hand, someone taught you the basics but did this in a terrible way, you associate negative things with the subject. Your curiosity is curbed, you won’t pursue the subject further.
- mirimir 9y agoThat's how it was for me. For most of my education, the focus in math was very practical. There were proofs in set theory and geometry, for sure. But math was mostly about calculating. Then, at university, the focus in math shifted to pure theory. I was lost. Totally lost. And then I discovered engineering math, and was happy again. So anyway, I wonder if I'd have been better off without so much practical math.
- noobermin 9y agoThen the question is how will you know to either pursue something further or not without being exposed to it first? How will you know about category theory or topology without well...learning about something related to topology or categories theory? How will you know that you can or can't pursue it?