For all the young people out there, Wrestling with math? Bored with History? Succumbing under Grammar? I Understand. I've been there. And I had this question: How will Geometry/ Calculus help me as an adult? What if I never became an engineer or a scientist? You might think I'm crazy but, here's the thing: Algebra is teaching us more than a(b+c) = ab +ac. Really. Math is teaching us to think. My guess is that most of us will probably never use all of those complicated equations... But with Geometry, we are learning to think deductively. We can train our mind to learn. To fix our attention. Learn what we need for life. Learn from the circumstances and from the people around us. This brings me to "boring" history. I personally love history, it is my favorite subject. But it is more than "In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue". We are looking at men's and women's lives. Their successes and mistakes. We can learn from those mistakes,...
From the Heart of a True Reader