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Old 09-21-2008, 03:43 PM   #35
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Originally Posted by JCC
Do you honestly think that people should be forced to learn trigonometry? Or Pythagoras' Theorem? How many office workers are going to need to know Iambic Pentameter?
Architects need to do trig, and Pythagoras' Theorum. You can't just stop teaching the whole population something just because most of them won't use it. On that basis, we should only teach hair and beauty, bricklaying, and typing.
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