I found out a couple of days ago that my niece is having some trouble in geometry. I was quit to say count me out. Math was not and still isn’t my subject. So I did some checking and I called her this evening and I told her that one option would be to talk to my brother. He’s always been good at math. I said I don’t think he ever took geometry but take your book to him and I bet if he looks at it a few minutes he can figure it out. She said “I don’t have a book”. My brain sort of locked up and couldn’t grasp that concept. I said what do you mean you don’t have a book. She said she didn’t have very many books at all, only three. I said how do you function without a book. She said she had her notes. She said it’s been this way for several years. I remember many many hours spent flipping from the math problem back through the book to figure out how to work the problem. Now all they have are notes?
No wonder education is slipping. We are obviously not giving children today the tools they need to learn. We seem to be pushing out thousands of children who can’t function if they don’t have a cell phone or a computer. What happened to books, paper and pencils? Even now sitting here my brain still can’t seem to grasp this.
Well, Mr. Gates you said that you were worried about kid’s education these days. How about giving them some books???