Good luck on your next painting project. If you make things, areas become very important.
Advanced calculus is mandatory, eg. for your income statement.
Critical thinking is important, y’all.
I don’t need to find the surface area of a cone to smoke it
Except special needs, in our daily life is often needed geometry, trigonometry and algebra more than we think, but in the professional use it’s more like this:
one time the state of Indiana almost made pi equal to 3.2. This is the dumb shit that happens when you aren’t introduced to these topics in school. Please don’t return us to dark times.
A = pi*r2*h/3
I’m always sad for people who never have to use their math skills again. I love figuring things like that out, even if it’s for some dumb idea I’m drawing.
School is meant to introduce you to a wide variety of fields and disciplines to help you choose a career. You might not have had any interest in geometry, but at least some of your classmates did and they may well be architects or engineers by now. Meanwhile, you probably had other things in school you liked but the other kids didn’t, which almost certainly influenced the kinds of jobs you want as an adult.
Some people can absently smoke a cigarette by the river, fully unaware of the fact that the volume of their tits has changed by .17% in the last 24 hours.
You can lead a horse to water … I get the sentiment though. Schooling is a great idea that is too often poorly executed. I’ve found that educational materials for math and science sometimes have a circlejerk kind of attitude, like the authors are laughing at the thought of students struggling with a problem “left as an exercise to the reader” immediately following a wall of dense, incomprehensible text.
Where can I find examples of otherwise dry subjects taught well? Is there an educational system that’s praised in the same way they praise Scandinavian prisons? Or is the pain of learning just a necessary evil?
When I was an intern, I had a boss that made me calculate the volume of a large, round, but oddly shaped tank with calculus. Insisted I used calculus for some reason.
THE MITOCHONDRIA-
Like the old country song says, “If you’re gonna play in Texas, you gotta have a parallelogram!”
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I’m pissed off by all the whiner complaining ScHoOl doEsn’t tEaCh aNytHiNg uSeFuL.
You want to build a small hut in your garden, what dimension should be the carpentry ? How much concrete do you need ? How many tiles ? You are in top of your leader and need to put the roof at 17°, how do you do without protractor ?
You have to put chemical in your pool, how to compute It’s volume ?
You have to write a letter by hand for whatever administrative reason, how do you do ? Some administration do require hand written statement.
You’re in a hotel where floors are numbered in roman, how do you go to your room ?
You read a book, how do you know in which chapter your stoped ?
You are in a real estate agency to buy a land. The land is trapezoidal and you notice the surface doesn’t correspond to what is written because those retard don’t know how to compute area of trapezoid (true story).
And for god sake, life is not about just doing things that are useful ! Just watching the stars with your kid, and tell him “that is Mars and that is Jupiter”, doing quiz with friends and win a free beer, growing its own sodium Cristal in a glass, writing poesie, all of those are completely useless but are the best parts of life !!!
