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Which country do you live in? I don't know about the quality of schools in general here (the Netherlands), but I've met too many people who say they "can't do m
by hobin 15y ago
Which country do you live in? I don't know about the quality of schools in general here (the Netherlands), but I've met too many people who say they "can't do math" to think very highly of our elementary educational system. Granted, though, this may have more to do with the fact that it's generally acceptable to 'just not able to do math'.
(This is not to say that I think everyone can do math equally well, but I've seen some otherwise intelligent people making such comments that made me want to rip my eyes out.)
- flaviusb 15y agoI think of it like Sturgeon's Law applied to humans. Most humans just are not very good at most stuff. Look at the percentage of programmers that are basically not any good at programming all and yet are able to continue being called programmers; if we apply standards of expectation uniformly, then you would expect to see even people in technical fields be able to be useless at math and have everyone basically just shrug and accept it.