[hilbert42]

"At school they keep trying to make them memorize useful phrases, like a tourist that goes to Paris…."

Like learning dozens of trig identities without any explanation about why one would need them. As I've mentioned elsewhere learning math for the sake of it isn't enough. For most of us math has to have relevance, and for that we have to link it to things in the real world.

[annerxox]

We can't even figure out that there are bottom up vs top down learners.

Instead we will just continue to slog along with the same poor system. Math wise, completely at the expense of the top down learners.

[hilbert42]

Right, you'd think by now we could do a little better.