Re: Is this math test too easy?

From: Luis A. Rodriguez (luiroto_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/22/04 

Date: 22 Nov 2004 13:06:01 -0800

Mxsmanic <mxsmanic@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<gk3up015iglhf672qaacodg1n2m7fu2uph@4ax.com>...
> Sure it does. People need skills that serve them in real life. If they
> are studying to become civil engineers, they need math; but if they are
> studying to become art directors or salespeople, they don't need math.
> Virtually nobody has a real-world need for history or literature. These
> are taught in school only because a longstanding tradition holds that
> they should be taught, and that tradition was not based on making people
> competent in society, but on producing an elite class of priests or
> other leaders with esoteric knowledge, which is not what modern
> education needs to produce.
>
This is the most absurd discourse I have heard in my life.
>From this follows that "real life" is being a slave of an employement.
So if you are chimeney-sweeper in your house must to exist only books
on brooms,mops,soot etc..
Besides is false that salespeople don't need mathematics, unless they
don't want to improve their capacity to augment the sales, through a
statistical analisys of the REAL situation.
If Watson did not study many scholar disciplines, now we were ignorant
of
the important science of ADN.
Any advanced knowledge is necessarily esoteric to the other people.
Why mathematicians are priests and art directors are not?
You exists because an elite class invented geometry,penicilin,
electricity, computers etc. Without that it's impossible to feed,
cloth, cure, teach etc
the 6 billions of people on earth. Otherwise the hunger, the thirst ,
the plages would have destroyed humanity.

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