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> unfamiliar and foreign looking The whole point of education is to approach and embrace unfamiliar concepts. By the way, arabic numbers are... arabic.
by eeZah7Ux 9y ago
> unfamiliar and foreign looking
The whole point of education is to approach and embrace unfamiliar concepts.
By the way, arabic numbers are... arabic.
- dahart 9y agoAgreed. But learning multiple unfamiliar concepts at once takes longer than learning one unfamiliar concept at once. It's a fact that some people are intimidated by Greek letters and highly symbolic math, I'm not sure why that's being pushed back on. It's an open question, not a statement on my part, whether using more familiar symbols would speed up learning. Are you absolutely certain it would not? Why? Have you tried? Lots of people on HN believe music education would be improved by updating the notation to be more "modern", and complain that music is more difficult to learn than it could be.