school choice

[Max Sawicky]

> . . .
> Good for them. American kids spend ungodly amounts of
> time doing mindless homework, and they still don't learn shit.
It
> is perhaps part of their indoctrination against leisure and
reflection. This is particularly true in mathematics and the
sciences,
> where the idea appears to be that how much you learn is
directly
> proportional to how many routine, no-think exercises you do.
>

I was a pretty good math student -- at least thru college
calculus -- but I always thought the key was just practice
practice practice.  The more problems you solved, the easier each
new one became.

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