Stormborn posted:Baseman posted:You caused this shit!!
Hope you learned something rather than relying on the protestations against common sense by these fellows with petrified minds. If you expect an increment of edification from the fact that the back of our colonial exercise books had tables and measures on them, you would be poorly served. Who the hell care for that miscellany? Now you should know, they were about what is required as fundamental preparation and preparation by the British way of pedagogy and rote memory did not serve us well. it did not encourage inquiring minds.
I bet you caught hell in first year university here where you were required to expand on formulas and show the logical development to the answer. It is not a matter of getting it right but knowing why it is right. It is nice to know you can look at a problem and identify it as a binomial and factorize it immediately. The understanding however is in the writing down of the expansion of the problem and logically illustrating how you came up with the answer.,
So there is no value in memorizing the very basics? So let's reinvent the wheel! Banna you are in a vast minority. No, I never caught hell the first year, not over math anyway. I was very quick at working out mathematical problems in a business quizz! The fact that I memorize the basics them apply to solve more complex problems allowed me to be fast.