Capitalist Cookie Cutters

Kids should be taught more than how to make money in school. They should learn how to live without making money in school. They should learn how to thrive without money.

I’m reading an astrology book, learning about the fourth dimension and all I can think about is why do teachers not have the opportunity to teach this stuff in school? If only they had told me that math can literally apply to everything!  That it would be useful for imagining the 4th dimension, or for understanding fractals – the building blocks of life! If someone had said to me “Mathematics is also the language of the universe,” I would have been much more interested as an angry pubescent teenager. What does that mean? The language of the universe!? How intriguing.

“You mean there’s more to life than my new acne issues and my inability to control my emotions!?! TEACH ME MORE MATH!” I would have said. Maybe.

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