Re:You Are Not Dumb, You Just Lack the Prerequisites
by bonoboTP on Sunday August 25, 2024 @12:25PM
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> Lovely article, though honestly getting those prerequisites also takes a lot of time, effort and either motivation or discipline in ample amounts.
Exactly. It's like saying that winning a marathon is easy, you just need to run fast enough.
The entire problem is that many people won't be able to learn the prerequisites of advanced math. There are always exceptional cases, like someone really smart who just totally slacked off during school because they spent all their time building apps or websites or tinkering with games or electronics. Or someone who was never given the opportunity to learn certain subjects because they had to work as a teen because their parents died etc. But the vast majority of people are presented with the prereq material they just can't absorb it.
Exactly. It's like saying that winning a marathon is easy, you just need to run fast enough.
The entire problem is that many people won't be able to learn the prerequisites of advanced math. There are always exceptional cases, like someone really smart who just totally slacked off during school because they spent all their time building apps or websites or tinkering with games or electronics. Or someone who was never given the opportunity to learn certain subjects because they had to work as a teen because their parents died etc. But the vast majority of people are presented with the prereq material they just can't absorb it.