For many students, education is just a job: memorizing facts they may well never use in their real lives. For parents, though, education is about setting your child up for life. The value of education does not lie in acquiring knowledge. After all, facts these days are literally at your […]
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Math is a Language No one can simply speak another language, and it’s not fair to expect them to. If you asked me to read out a Japanese poem, I wouldn’t know where to start, and you wouldn’t think it strange that I couldn’t read all those strange, beautiful symbols. […]
It’s a common complaint to hear schoolkids ask “Why am I learning this? When will I ever use this in my life”. Have you noticed, though, that you don’t hear this complaint from students who actually understand what they’re learning? That’s because no one cares whether material is useful when […]