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Re: Math education and teaching navigation
From: Andrés Ruiz
Date: 2013 Jun 19, 14:29 +0200
From: Andrés Ruiz
Date: 2013 Jun 19, 14:29 +0200
the goal of education “is to enable individuals to continue their education.”
John Dewey
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Confucius
The better prepared you are, the less effort you have to do to learn navigation.
A friend of mine, a lawyer, when he was preparing his yacht skipper exam, had difficulty understanding the set&drift and apparent wind math, because he did not know vector calculus, and had forgotten the basis of trigonometry.
