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To: NorthMountain
The ability to understand algebra is a rough IQ test.

That is only probable for left-brained, linear thinkers. In my many years of working with artists, architects, designers, writers, photographers, etc., several of whom had near-genius or genius IQ, very few could "do" higher abstract math, even algebra. Yet they had excelled in visual math like plane geometry.

"All God's children got a place in the choir/ some sing low, some sing higher..."

170 posted on 07/21/2017 7:30:42 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
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To: Albion Wilde

True! And the left brain thinkers should be required to take classes in the arts and humanities as well. Bring back music, shop classes, home economics, theatre, classic literature, history, etc.

The purpose of a well rounded education is to expose a person to as much as possible and to develop an appreciation for the varying god given talents around them. Passing is not success and failure is not fatal. Both are essential.


173 posted on 07/21/2017 7:40:13 AM PDT by lurked_for_a_decade (Imagination is more important than knowledge! ( e_uid == 0 ) != ( e_uid = 0 ). I Read kernel code.)
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