Do you have smart but dumb parents?

enfieldacademy
Wed, 17 Jul 2013 01:36:43 +0000

Halogen:

I would rather understand the nature of the algebraic structures that form arithmetic and how they compare and contrast with other algebraic structures than be able to subtract numbers when I don’t have a calculator.



me too. the way you said it sounded romantic. but i don’t think it’s any of my business doing that. what if i gave myself a mini stroke by accident because i didn’t think properly but i didn’t know it because, being small, it was one of those silent ones without symptoms. then what if i kept doing that but not noticing it. i think there are prophylactic arguments in favor of sticking to such mental exercises as subtraction.



Halogen:

I’m honestly disappointed by the sentiment of this thread, not that I expected better. But in a discussion focusing on people who are surprisingly “dumb” as the title says, there is at least the potential to focus on intellectual attributes that truly matter: passion for learning things without obvious application, capacity to understand the inner workings and meanings of systems beyond their consequences, etc. But instead, the focus has been on banal proficiency in following procedures.



this thread can be about anything, EVEN WAFFLES. don’t be disappointed, THERES WAFFLES. cheered up?