Wesley Milton Dagwell III
New in Town
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One does not feel stupid until one needs the skill to survive or get ahead. When skills such as math are held as a skill not needed one becomes hostage to those that do have the skills. Imagine having to have others balance ones check book or help with creating a household budget.
Knowing a skill does not hamper one in life and believing that knowledge is a waste of time makes for a smaller existence by limiting one's own horizons...
It's true that math skills are important - that's why they are still taught, of course. But we don't have to do the calculator's job. Just understand the job that it does. The principles of maths.
I never meant to imply that knowledge, in general, is worthless. Just that quite a lot of it is entirely unnecessary and unhelpful - there would be few greater wastes of time than learning things that are completely irrelevant. There's so much more to learn that is at least slightly relevant and we'd be old men before we knew it all.
The things that are important to us may not be important to future generations, even the next generation. I'm just saying one should take care not to be resentful of them for that. If they had a need for it then they'd pursue it.