2019 September

Ageism is the –ism none of us should have because no matter what, with good fortune, we’re all going in one direction. That is, we’re all on our way to… old. The ageist thus insults his own future self.

I think it is common in certain educational settings (eg courses of any sort) to over emphasise the memorisation of concepts rather than the building of skills, whether it’s learning about Deep Learning or learning about Professional Services firms. Mathematics courses, to contrast, will focus on problem solving, though there often seems no structure behind building those skills. You kind of figure out various tricks, various equivalencies that cancel out or that can be ignored. In my experience learning mathematics subjects at university, you just learned by completing the assignment questions.