On 02/06/2018 01:26 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Tue, 06 Feb 2018 03:57:32 -0000, rbowman wrote:

On 02/05/2018 05:45 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
But it's stupidly designed. C is sensible: 0 is the freezing point of
water, 100 is boiling point, easy to understand. Why don't you also use
some weird base for maths, sorry math, instead of 10?

During my brief career as a math(s) teacher I tried to teach weird base
systems to 12 year olds. The A class (college bound) kids picked it up,
the D class (Dummies) couldn't make change for a dollar in the decimal
system let alone appreciate Sumeria sexagesimal calculations. But in
this country everyone is equal so they are taught the same things.

Don't they seperate dummies from bright kids over there like we do?


Yes, there was homogenous grouping in the four classes, A to D. Roughly

A -- college bound
B -- junior college / skilled trades
C -- unskilled trades
D -- ****ups and dunces

However the same syllabus was used for all four classes. The Manusmriti
codified the rights and duties of the varnas in India, as did the
Rigsthula in the Northern European worldview.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%ADgs%C3%BEula

Unfortunately the high sounding 'all men are created equal'
Enlightenment ideal that was spawned by Christianity makes it unpopular
to say the majority of the population are thralls and should be trained
for their role in society, not for a level they cannot and will not ever
reach.

'You think you're so clever and classless and free
but you're still ****ing peasants as far as I can see'

'Working Class Hero' John Lennon (on a day when reality intruded)