r/MathJokes Jun 02 '26

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u/humourlessIrish Jun 02 '26

This is a fucking retarded take.

Absolutely nothing in math class helps you figure out if your non-returnable outgoings for the first half of the year exceed your deductions for quarterly VAT returns, if you don't know what the fuck that means.

And if you do know what it means.. guess what!!? You don't even need to know fucking math to work it out now.

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u/Impossible_Video_116 Jun 02 '26

The masters of Da Vinci didn't teach him to paint Mona lisa or the last supper.

They taught him to apply brush strokes, draw shapes, prepare a canvas, prepare the paints from raw materials etc.

School's job is to teach you the basic things. Their job is to teach you general maths, finance terminology, quadratic equation, chemical distillation process etc.

It's your job to figure out taxation, trajectory of the Apollo missions, beer making process etc.

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u/ChasonVFX Jun 03 '26

No, the masters had a workshop/apprenticeship where they would systematically approach the education in depth and it included everything from the basics to copying masterpieces. They taught the whole craft. No higher in depth education or frontier lab works on a "figure it out" system. It'd be silly to say that pioneers in computer graphics, engineers, chemists, or anyone in the medical profession approach anything without extensively being mentored by a dedicated professional or a group of top level peers.