| Show counts time spent on study of math wasted I 1 believe that thai an appalling amount of time Is spent in childhood in de arning things which dont matter remembering things which will never be ba lie needed eded and doing silly tricks which an intelligent man maa ite need ed never waste wast his time upon let us contemplate for example the absurdities and abominations of arithmetic at a conservative estimate I 1 have myself wrestled with arithmetic and its related studies through ten years of 0 my irreplaceable youth I 1 was moreover F pretty good at it I 1 could throw a mean logarithm and chase a cotangent into a comer and hang my hat on it I 1 have done dona all the geometry plain and fancy and dabbled delicately in calculus I 1 could once make an advanced algebraic equation say uncle I 1 assure you that not a trace of it la Is left and that furthermore I 1 dont dealt miss it there must be a large blank area in my brain which was once full fall of arithmetic but it the least painful except for a reasonable facility with the multiplication table there a parti cleof arithmetic left in my system I 1 can make change chang but so BO can a street car conductor but I 1 cant remember more than five telephone numbers and so long as they continue to print telephone books I 1 wont need to donald rose in the forum and century |
