I am not sure of your teacher is historically accurate. However, the educational system these days is the equivalent of not being educated at all. They make up some of the most peculiar stories when faced with a lack of knowledge of this great and vast world around us. Nevertheless, I would image that a would without math would be dim and gloomy. Essentially, we would be living in the dark ages without knowing the difference between a gallon and a quart of milk. In our educational system today, children are taught a hate mathematics and if we continue on the trajectory that we are currently on, we may one day face a world where mathematics and science is not available -- a world where it has completely disappeared. That is why every time I walk the town, I stress the critical importance of education. I tell my friends and neighbors that we must be watchful and continue to keep tabs on what our elected officials on the school boards across the world are doings.
It is education, particularly math, that has brought light to a dark world, and fostered the spread of technology that was unimaginable to those crawling through the damp caves of Europe. It has brought forward the energy that heats our homes and help build the infrastructure that allowed us to fight disease by curing the sick, and it has fueled our twenty-first century global economies. It contributes so much to the world that we inhabit, and it is hard to conceptualize a world without mathematics, but we know that without it we would be headed toward extinction just as the dinosaurs and so many of the other brainless animals that came before us.
