re: #93 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Your writing on the topic sounds exactly like the ivory tower types you claim to be arguing against. David Hilbert and Albert Einstein didn’t attend special schools just for them, and yet somehow they ended up being the ones who excelled at using math. I am far better at math - and I suck at parsing sentences, by the way - than people I know whose parents paid for tutoring when they were young, even though I went to schools with far less resources. And you can’t explain our last president, who grew up in a wealthy family but only seemed to have learned how to con people.

The biggest flaw in our education system is that it assumes everyone learns the same way - Listen to the teacher, do a few practice problems, and test - and that everyone interacts with the world the same way. But the difference between my brother and me completely disproves that. My brother is not the “sit down and work through problems” type, and was never going to grasp the parts of math that require that. Our education system needs to take that into account.