re: #294 LudwigVanQuixote

I think the world would be better if people actually knew algebra and rather than seeing it as something to get defensive about not knowing, would see it with shame shame as not being able to read.

I’m embarrassed that I could not get past the whole letters=numbers thing (finding the unknown…right?) though I have tried over the years to learn algebra I just can’t.
Maybe that makes me defensive.
Or maybe I’m just wired that way.

I like to read.
No, I love to read and I do not understand how anyone who can read does not enjoy reading for pleasure.
WTF?
How can that be?
My husband, who is quite the math guy, does not read for pleasure. He describes the act of reading as almost painful because, for him, it requires so much mental energy.

Not sure where I was going with this….