The Ask a Seedblogger question this week is
Assuming that time and money were not obstacles, what area of scientific research, outside of your own discipline, would you most like to explore? Why?
That's an easy one: the one area I most miss having done well is: mathematics. Statistics, calculus, you name it, I don't know it. I actually did quite well as school but I had bad teachers and curricula (except for my last one, but I left school before year's end), and didn't see the point, quite frankly. Now I do. You can't address any area of knowledge without coming into contact with mathematics.
Now I know this isn't science as such, but it is like needing to be able to read Latin to study theology. It's the lingua franca...
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Sorry to hear that your schooling experiences with maths was less than satisfactory. I constantly impress the importance of maths onto some of my students who wail that they will never use anything I teach them ever again in their life. Real life experiences are often limitted in teenagers. Hope to keep reading your bloggs
Cheers
Forgot to mention the area I would like to have studied other that mathematics and education. I would have liked to have enquired in geograghy.
Actually, mathematics can be seen as the science of material-independent phenomena....
Mathematics is a science in the classical sense, of being organised knowledge. Although recently there's been a fair bit of "empirical math", using simulations and computer-based theorem proof.
You don't need Latin to study theology, it all depends on which theology your studying:-)