OKAY, JUST IN CASE A MAGA SHOWS UP HERE...
MANKIND HAS BEEN STUDYING THE WORLD
FOR MORE THAN 50,000 YEARS AND WRITING
ABOUT WHAT WAS LEARNED FOR ONLY THE
LAST 5,000 YEARS. TIME BEFORE WRITING
IS CALLED "PREHISTORIC," SO THAT'S BEFORE
5,000 YEARS AGO.
EDUCATION IS MAN'S ATTEMPT TO BRING THE
NEWLY ARRIVED FOLK UP TO SPEED ABOUT
WHAT HAS BEEN GOING ON (HISTORY) AND
WHAT WE'VE DISCOVERED (SCIENCE), AS
WELL AS WHERE THINGS ARE (GEOGRAPHY),
WHO LIVES WHERE, AND WHERE THINGS
COME FROM.
ARITHMETIC USES THE ARABIC NUMERAL
SYSTEM AND ALGEBRA USES LETTERS TO
INDICATE UNKNOWNS. THAT ALLOWS ONE
TO POSE HYPOTHETICAL PROBLEMS WHERE
IN AN EQUATION AN UNKNOWN QUANTITY
IS BALANCED AGAINST A KNOWN ONE IN
AN ATTEMPT TO FIND AN ANSWER TO A
QUESTION ABOUT AN UNKNOWN.
YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD OF THE MOST
FAMOUS EQUATION E=M C ² MEANING
THE ENERGY OF A MASS IS EQUAL TO THE
MASS MULTIPLIED BY THE SPEED OF LIGHT
SQUARED (TIMES ITSELF). IN ANY EVENT
YOU SHOULD NOW REALIZE THAT IS WHY
LETTERS ARE USED IN EQUATIONS, AND
THAT YOUR LEARNING SHOULD NOT STOP
WHEN YOU LEAVE SCHOOL. EVEN IF YOU
CANNOT ATTEND COLLEGE, THERE ARE
BOOKS AND LIBRARIES WHERE YOU CAN
CONTINUE TO LEARN THINGS THAT
YOU MAY LATER FIND VERY USEFUL.
---end of rant---
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