You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

shminux comments on [Link] Why the kids don’t know no algebra - Less Wrong Discussion

21 Post author: GLaDOS 04 July 2012 10:29AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (165)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: shminux 05 July 2012 03:18:03PM *  2 points [-]

No, and it's child abuse when schools put enormous pressure on low IQ children to learn this kind of stuff.

I mean people who have low aptitude for math, and whose general intelligence (IQ) may well be above average.

For example, were singing mandatory for graduation, I would have had trouble finishing school, because I cannot hold a tune if my life depended on it. Well, as I said, I could have probably learned it with 1000x the time/effort/investment of your average person, but it would be silly to require that.