good job, get a good education." The country seems to have swallowed it.
education without it being tied to career. This is unfortunate.
it is definately not the focus of this clan. We need some money, not
much, but some. As the children establish themselves independently,
they will need money too. We work for that without selling out
souls to it. That is, career is not life, it is not who they are.
We have actively nipped in the bud the old bit about "What do you
want to be when you grow up..." Be? They are now what they will
be, themselves. What they do for money is NOT what they are,
although that notion serves the industrial/government/consumerist
paradigm and is promoted by government schooling.
So you see (may see) that the notion that one needs to probe deeply into each artificially partitioned branch of math on the outside chance that they may need that particular type of math described in those particular terms and the ability to communicate that math in the agreed parlance because of some future possible maybe career choice is a most foolish waste of resources.
Again the career thing. Having creditials and having worked as a speech therapist, I'm all to familiar with audiology. Here's the impression the formal education left with me. Sound waves are sinusoidal. The compression and rarefaction of air is the function of the sine of the angle within the cycle. Do you know that in a class of some 20 graduating audiologists and speech patholotists, every one of them (except me, of course) thought that the schematic of the wavy line was what a sound wave looked like. They thought sound was traveling through the air as little squiggles that looked like that.
that when waves of the wake encountered the flotsam on the water, theI do understand what you are saying about labels and communication. I
flotsam didn't actually move. She concluded that the water wasn't moving either but rather undulating in a regular and predictable pattern. She had grasped the concept of sinusoidal wave motion, although she didn't use those terms ...... yet. Now which, my nine year old or the audiology graduates, best understands spherical trig?
Ask him a question for me...I have been wanting to know what the Vikings/Norsemen used for navigation. Obviously, they used the stars, but that is rather general information. Did they use sand clocks?
He says they were coast huggers. They mainly navigated by following ocean currents as if they were rivers, by monitoring the water temperature and bits of vegetation floating on it. That's why, says he, that they didn't take off diagonally across the Atlantic but rather explored the European coasts and the North Atlantic where they
had predictable currents to follow.
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