sixes_and_sevens comments on Rationality Quotes May 2012 - Less Wrong
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Proud of not learning math includes math like algebra or conversation of units. That sort of math, which might be taught in elementary school, is practically useful in daily life. Being proud of not knowing that kind of math is profoundly anti-learning. The attitude applies equally to learning anything, from reading to history to car mechanics.
Something a not-especially-mathsy friend of mine said a while back: