• CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 days ago

    There is a cross section of smart people who only learned how to do school work and got straight As but failed to understand how that school work applies to real life.

    I’ve been in classes with people who were in AP calculus have real difficulty in shop class trying to figure out how much square footage of whatever you needed. These are people who can figure out the area under a curve but fail to calculate a 20% tip.