[fatherwavelet]

Certain subjects we treat as if one has to learn woodworking before taking violin lessons.

We just really underestimate sentimentality in our society because it doesn't fit our self conception.

[RA_Fisher]

Very fair. I think even more we underestimate our own sentimentalities. eg- the teacher that believes adding or multiplication has to be done a particular way (like the standard algorithm vs. partial products).