My point is I dont need to. I cant do a derivation using calculus (hope I said that right) and hey look, here I am. However, someone else may need to learn that stuff because they use it on a day to day basis. If education taught me how to think through and solve problems (not necessarily calculus, wave theory and so on), then it succeeded.

i went thru a public,primary secondary and university. I turned out ok. Private schools have no life and who told u anyway that those private teachers, if given the chance would not act the same? #niggasitdown.

hehe... interesting.... its not so much on where to find the formulas but rather if the numbers will make sense to you... if you cant figure out that the mortgage repayment will be a rip-off because the figures dont make sense to you then there is no use of knowing the formula of calculating them....

My bro, who is in "jua kali", (people think these guys dont use some 'education') was calculating for me the costing of excavating a plot.... its typical mathematics... that's how you know if you are being conned by the service provider or not.... or if you are the service provider, that is how you know if you can do that work profitably or not.... if you cant interpret the figures, dont bother with the fomulas... that's what you are taught to do - make sense of the figures.

The Kiswahili our kids are taught in school is very tough for young brains....Some years back my son asked me the Swahili name for nursery school......Something i had heard but i didn't get right and so i told him it's "shule ya kuchekelewa" while it's "shule ya chekechea" or something....he almost died of laughter.

hata mimi am almost dying of laughter... kweli wewe ni guka...ati shule ya kuchekelewa..