Opus 2025-115: Who Needs Algebra?

When I talk to people about what goes on in schools and what is required, I often get the question of, “Who needs algebra?”  While I understand what they’re saying, I personally have found algebra to be very useful in my daily chores.  I use it on a regular basis in my spreadsheets and I use spreadsheets for all kinds of things.  So to me algebra is useful.  It’s the kind of thing that you use without thinking about it or by name.

Another thing is cursive writing, who needs it?  One video I was watching pointed out that if you can’t read cursive, then you can’t read the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution in their original form.  Now, you may think that’s not necessary, if you look into how much the elite cabal is censoring and changing history you might find it an important skill to have.

But what got me going on this was grammar.  Who needs grammar?  I find that I need to look it up all the time to understand my Bible properly.  This week I had to look up the meanings of direct objects and indirect objects.  I also was looking up the cases.  What does it mean when a word is in the genitive?  What does the dative case convey?  And that was just this week.  Now if I had perfect memory, I would remember those things from taking grammar from elementary school through high school.  But then, again, if I never took them, I couldn’t remember.

So yes, just because you aren’t aware that you’re using them, just because you didn’t use them today, just because you don’t understand them doesn’t mean that certain skills and knowledge are not important to you as an educated and well-rounded person.

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