Trend-starting Texas drops algebra II mandate

[bhikkhu]

80. I use it every day at work as a mechanic

and I'll never get over how people think its useless. I'm always doing things around the house that benefit from an understanding of geometry as well.

Perhaps you never used it because you never really learned it? That's one of the things with people who don't learn things - if you don't know it, you generally don't know how to use it, and then you think its of no use. To me that's more of an argument for requiring education, as it gives people the opportunity to learn things, to make themselves more effective as people, and to enrich their lives, in ways they would never even suspect if uneducated.

One of the big turning points in my life was going back to college at 40. After two years finishing a bachelors degree, I think differently, and it essentially made my mind a more effective tool and increased my capacity for understanding. I can look back on the years before I went back and just wish I had known then, for those 20 adult years, what I know now...