>Bryan makes a pretty good point in my opinion. And not even just about math, but education in general. For all of our technological advances, we seem woefully

>Bryan makes a pretty good point in my opinion. And not even just about math, but education in general. For all of our technological advances, we seem woefully short of figuring out the best way to educate a human being, identifying their talents, and making the experience useful and enlightening. If that was his central point, I would agree. >Some people argue that it teaches you the meta-skill of learning how to learn, but if that was true, you could literally just teach the meta-skill itself, instead of teaching it indirectly. I think it is. And I sucked at math in school. I think it is a meta-skill every bit as much as reading is and nearly as important. But so are some of the other soft skills that we are not teaching kids.