On Dec 31 2011, 3:05*pm, willshak wrote:
Davej wrote the following:

On Dec 30, 2:25 pm, "Charlie" wrote:
[...]
...And another thing would be to start packaging goods in kilograms. You
can heft a package and guess that it weighed about 5 pounds. Until you can
judge *a couple of kilos that way you will never become adept at the
conversion.

Yes, we never get the feel for it. Plenty of US kids learn the metric
system in school, but they never get to the point where they can
estimate how much something weighs in Kilograms or estimate how many
Liters a quantity of liquid is.

Having to Learn something that one may never use in real live is a waste
of time and money.
Classes teaching metrics should be limited to those who intend to go on
to careers where metrics are actually used.
It's like having to learn Latin.


All information is good.