Listen this song while reading my blogpost.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2GujJZfXpg
Read this while listening that song:
https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf
>be me
>be 28 year old HS dropout (because I hate people telling me what to learn)
>always dreamed of making games
>struggle with making 2D shit on libgdx
>realize I need to learn HS math
>hated math in school
>say fuck this, I can't even code a basic 2D physics without HS math
>start to watch math videos
>start to watch the beauty of math pop math videos
>start to watch lectures about the history of math
>realize math is pretty cool
>read mathematicians lamment
>start to read about math decline and math problems in education
>realize they're destroying such a beautifull art and language by actually trying to force kids like me to learn it in the most disgusting way
>tfw they never taugh me the histories and struggles of humans to discover and invent math
>all that beauty and effort and human struggle never appeared in school, it was just learn this, we don't give a fuck if you learn it, why do you care, just study for the test
>math history? lmao who cares.
>why do you need to learn it? we don't even know, we're shitty math mediocre students who even hate math and we hate you
>tfw was denied all my live from discovering a beautifull art
>tfw I was like a blind person who never saw what is a color IRL, or a deaf person who never has heard beethoven
>tfw they keep doing this every year to millions of kids like me
>tfw watching ramanujan movie