>>10894656This was one of feynman critiques of the whole education system: you subctract from both sides, if there's a number you divide both sides and so forth without understanding the why. It's just a sequence of steps that brings you from A to B.
I was like you to be honest. In italy high school scores start from 0 up to 10 and my average in math was: 4. I truly believed I had some kind of mental retardation, so much that it started affecting me on a deeper lever. Somewhat I started to see the why of things and everything clicked. Now I'm getting bored to electrical engineering and I'm going to move to physics: for me a couple of years ago this was unthinkable.
I'm no genius, I'm slower than most of the people around me but the pursuit of why instead of "step 1, step 2, ..." has put me above many of my peers (my average is almost 27/30 while theirs is 20 tops).
