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To: Canuck Dave who wrote (17773)	4/26/2007 4:12:54 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218741

CD, those are just two questions. Tests normally comprise a few more questions than that. Note that the second is from a diagnostic test. Which is obviously to assess what level of mathematics people doing the test have got to. So, I guess, it starts with; How many fingers are being held up by the following pictures of hands? And ends with the Schroedinger equation. The other question is a straightforward crunch the numbers spatial perception trivial Euclidean geometry question...yawn. I remember doing swarms of "proofs" of theorems in the 3rd and 4th form. Big deal. It beat learning a whole lot of dates about the British royal family and sundry wars England was involved with, which I refused to do. School was for the most part a waste of time. Schools are just officially and legally sanctioned child abuse. It wouldn't be legal to treat large primates like that, but it's okay to do it to humans. A dirty great thug threatening to beat me with a stick if I didn't learn ancient English history and other useless "facts". I hope he died an early and painful death. My problems with school started at about week two when I decided I'd just stay outside when play time was finished because it was too boring inside. I was amazed that the teacher noticed I wasn't inside and found me hiding behind the building. Mqurice

To: Canuck Dave who wrote (17773)	4/26/2007 6:32:54 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 218741

hello cd, i am with you, in thati have always, without fail, found the easy way out i had a C- average in highschool, F's and D's for the first 2.5 years (except A+ in German throughout) and A+ the last 1.5 years. At year -1.5, my mom discovered that I had been signing my dad's signature on the report cards ever since 7th grade, and I got a 100 on a remedial math class which felt good and motivated me to study a bit. you know the tale, collapse, and rise, a cyclical chain of happenings. my college transcripts looked like the reverse of my highschool transcript, with higher performance at the beginning than at the end, and during fall semesters than during spring season ... step function, going in the incorrect direction college was meant to be fun, and so i did, tooling in my scirocco, then mazda, checking out antler's inn on thursday nights (steamers from nyc) and dunbars on fridays i learned a lot from my jewish brothers at my jewish fraternity, zbt, zillions billions trillions, zeta beta tomata, and i learned what not to do ... there was one kid in my fraternity who would deliberately drop out of any course where he was not going to get an A and take it over in the next go around ... to maintain an A average and get into medical school as to the pre-kinergarten test, they are required for all facilities, local and international, and so cannot be helped, although the rigor differ we chose the kindergartens where erita's playmates from playschool might be going to, wich in turn is actually based on (i) fun and learning (as opposed to learning and learning) and (ii) distance to home. our coconut likes to hang with a few kids in the neighborhood whose parents are friends of ours to begin with, and so all is pretty natural i remember one college calculus exam question i had to do, one of five, where the swedish prof had warned beforehand that one of the five nasty questions only the very best would be able to do ... the particular question stumped me, and so i skipped it to do the other four ... then i returned to the tough question ... we were doing integrals at the time, and the question asked for the volume of space left over after a sphere was subtracted from a cube ... i could not do the integrals ... so i used the geometry formulae for a cube and a sphere and did the subtraction it turned out that in fact was the question only the very best are expected to do ... during the post exam explanation, the prof wrote a whole blackboard of formulae that to this day i cannot hope to do ... the class went whoa ... and then the prof said, 'and one of you, mr. chen, did the problem this way' ... wrote the formulae in 5 seconds, and the class went dead silent ... i remember the moment fondly ... beats a touch down pass or whatever they do in what passes for football :0)