When I was in sixth or seventh grade, my class was part of a trial in which the district tested a new math text based on inductive reasoning. Reading today’s strip immediately reminded me of that traumatic experience, from which I have never fully recovered.
In life it is frequently necessary to come to answers through a ruthless process of trial and error, but sometimes it really makes more sense to just be told the best way to do something.
When I was in sixth or seventh grade, my class was part of a trial in which the district tested a new math text based on inductive reasoning. Reading today’s strip immediately reminded me of that traumatic experience, from which I have never fully recovered.
In life it is frequently necessary to come to answers through a ruthless process of trial and error, but sometimes it really makes more sense to just be told the best way to do something.