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If you didn't take it, how do you know you couldn't or wouldn't use it? I can't count the number of tools I never used until I bought one...then found it incredibly invaluable. When I first started road cycling, I didn't see the point in all that road cycling stuff. When I reached the point of doing three-hour rides...all that stuff began to make sense.
Yes, someone can run a business without knowing such basics, but he's always operating less efficiently than the person who does. So Mike Holmes can do the estimate quickly and accurately in his head. The other guy says, "let me go back to my office and figure it out." Mike gets the job.
As I did say, if all they want to do is work for Mike Holmes, they can let him do all the calculations.
But do you really want to design your education system with the goal of producing nothing better than people who can only work for Mike Holmes? That's effectively what we have right now: A system that is inadvertently designed to produce people who are untrainable for technical work.
The Army will tell you that right away. The majority of high school graduates today are not prepared for training in any Army occupation without remedial education. How in the heck can we have a system that has a kid for 12 years and can't reliably produce someone who is ready to be trained in any Army specialty?
That's great for you but some just don't understand algebra and don't need it in their work or day to day life. Can you write an 100 page paper about international relations with the middle east...doubtful yet extremely important as well.
It's not my expertise but I could do it better than most. I've been reading newspapers daily since I was about 11 and probably read more now than ever.
Natalie when you are business the last thing you want to do is be googling everything if for example you are talking to a client. While many people are successful in business that have not completed school they certainly have a very good grasp of math. One of the most successful people I knew could barely spell and his writing looked like it was a second grader however you wouldn't want to compete against him doing math in your head.
Sorry, my husband was horrible in math because he didn't understand it. He failed. He is extremely successful now. Math has nothing to do with success.
It's not my expertise but I could do it better than most. I've been reading newspapers daily since I was about 11 and probably read more now than ever.
Reading has nothing to do with writing. It's not your expertise just like math is not an expertise for some. Not everyone is a math expert just like not everyone can research and write.
He is extremely successful now. Math has nothing to do with success.
You could be Albert Einstein and it doesn't mean you would successful in business however all other things being equal Albert is going to be more successful.
You could be Albert Einstein and it doesn't mean you would successful in business however all other things being equal Albert is going to be more successful.
I disagree. Math is not the reason for success. It's the individual.
Reading has nothing to do with writing. It's not your expertise just like math is not an expertise for some. Not everyone is a math expert just like not everyone can research and write.
Reading has everything to do with it because you have to understand your subject first before you can write about it. Math is not my expertise either but it could be just like writing , I'm a "jack of all trades, master of none" kind of guy. Given enough experience I could do just about anyone's job.
I disagree. Math is not the reason for success. It's the individual.
I didn't say it was the reason for success did I?
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