Thank You Sister Janice!

I got to spend some quality time with my mentor yesterday as I drove him to the airport It's amazing how a couple of hours engaged in quality conversation will spark ideas and draw conclusions you've never been drawn to before. Anyway the drive back home gave me some great time alone to process my thoughts and my mind wandered off to a part of the conversation that really had me go off on a tangent. Has anyone else noticed that just about every generation has it's students taught "new math?"

Now I don't know if you realize this but math is the foundation of just about everything. Math is the cornerstone of logic, it's the basis of how we draw our thoughts together to come to a conclusion. Discovering patterns in life is all centered on math. In depth studies have been done to show that even the smallest event in our lives is driven by a mathematic equation, principle, or theory. So why is it that every generation they find a new and more confusing way to teach it?

Now math for some people is not something they grasp easily. I'm one of the fortunate ones that had an exceptional math teacher, so because of the persistence of Sister Janice I can do many of the calculations in my head. Like I said I was blessed, there are many who struggle with even the simplest of problems, so if their children are struggling with math problems, how would they help them? The answer is, they can't. I propose this is by design, after all math is the basis for logic. How dangerous would it be for this bureaucracy if the electorate's forte' was logic? Confusing the process of how a student achieves their answers goes a long way to keep the logic at a lower level. People can never build on their math foundation to achieve a higher level of logic because first of all they hate math, and second they don't understand it. So by default they avoid it like the plague. And what better way to keep that logic at bay than to keep changing the way math is taught? It retards the learning curve and keeps the intellectual elite safe from the common man. Just as long as the populous struggles doing just the most rudimentary math, adding, subtracting, multiplication, and division, they'll never achieve the higher mathematical abilities it takes to apply logic.

On our ride Orrin was commenting someone had once asked him how he knew so much about economics. He told them that he hadn't yet done any detailed study on that subject but he found it was just mathematics. Orrin was drawn to the subject by examining a chart that exposed the facts of compound interest, and how it heavily favors the lender leaving the borrower to overspend enormously. He's since read a mountain of books and teaches it to others in a simple common sense manner. Is it a wonder that since most people struggle with math, how our financial decisions are the disaster they are? Now, think a while and use the logic I just exposed and draw the conclusion of who that favors........

God Bless!
Capt. Bill