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Counter-counterpoint: You have to balance the 'need' for abstract topics with the advantage that young minds have in learning. Generally speaking, as you get older it becomes more difficult to learn new things. So the most advantageous time to learn those difficult/abstract topics is when your mind is (statistically) best capable of learning them. | Counter-counterpoint: You have to balance the 'need' for abstract topics with the advantage that young minds have in learning. Generally speaking, as you get older it becomes more difficult to learn new things. So the most advantageous time to learn those difficult/abstract topics is when your mind is (statistically) best capable of learning them. | ||
+ | [[User:Who, me?|Who, me?]] ([[User talk:Who, me?|talk]]) 01:14, 19 January 2022 (UTC) | ||
β | Counter-counter-counterpoint: abstract topics are actually specifically the sorts of things that "young minds" (up through middle school, at least, and sometimes into high school) struggle to learn (or comprehend) more than more | + | Counter-counter-counterpoint: abstract topics are actually specifically the sorts of things that "young minds" (up through middle school, at least, and sometimes into high school) struggle to learn (or comprehend) more than more developed minds. It's why teaching algebra to middle schoolers (in general and on average) is generally avoided. |
On an unrelated note, the depressing thing about this comic is that I have heard students make the same complaint (i.e. when am I ever going to need this) about music, cooking, AND speaking a foreign language. | On an unrelated note, the depressing thing about this comic is that I have heard students make the same complaint (i.e. when am I ever going to need this) about music, cooking, AND speaking a foreign language. | ||
[[User:Who, me?|Who, me?]] ([[User talk:Who, me?|talk]]) 01:14, 19 January 2022 (UTC) | [[User:Who, me?|Who, me?]] ([[User talk:Who, me?|talk]]) 01:14, 19 January 2022 (UTC) |