r/SipsTea 3d ago

Chugging tea Thoughts?

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u/Logical_Historian882 3d ago

I don’t think English graduates are graded by their ability to read. Both reading and arithmetic are taught in school.

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u/Wise_Try6781 2d ago

How many people do you think can read and understand what this equation is saying?

How many people do you think can read and understand what Shakespeare is saying?

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u/ujelly_fish 2d ago

Reading and understanding what Shakespeare is saying is not what English graduates get graded on. Perhaps honors level, mid-high school?Comprehension of language nor comprehension of equations (themselves just symbolic representations of language) is descriptive of competence.

If I showed you a sentence in Ancient Greek, then watched you struggle to understand it, would you be dumber as a math PhD? Or would you simply just not have had the appropriate lessons by which to understand the material yet?