That's crap. If you are rich, you can study easier.
The time you spent on hard work, it is time less to study and practice maths.
Maths need practice, as you know.
Math is not my strong point. I can balance a check book, budget my money for the month and daily life stuff like that. I taught people moving from a group home into the community the skills they would need including from balancing a checkbook to Human Relations/Sexual Awareness. so I can handle my business. English and Science were the only subjects in High School I was interested in or got anything out of. The rest was a waste of my day at the time.
That said, your first statement falls flat on facts and is merely assumption. Having a lot of money doesn't make studying any easier. They might be rich with a Learning Disability. It might make getting accepted into Ivy League colleges easier if your parents shell out $500,000, in America at least. For what it's worth, and I could elaborate.
Your second, I have learned more from hands-on experience about computers than I ever did in school. The calculator wasn't invented till I was a Senior in High School and I have never taken a computer class. I taught myself to write XHTML and CSS at w3schools.com among other things. I bought the OpenSolaris Bible and never made it past the foreward except for a few choice pages where I needed assistance. I set it up. got to work and that's how I learned
I was always a A student in English, and Science, but my language skills have improved markedly since going online in 1999 to present phrase phenom, progressed, prophetically predestined Planetary Pontification Pharaoh. I'm a completely different person due to the internet, self-initiative and hands on experience. This is my own personal style of writing, copious commas my tell and easy to change.
I once was stymied and drew a total blank on an essay question of "How do you think you will be remembered" and it lowered my overall score in an important test to second highest score that year. Can you believe it? Me, King of the Dead, consort to Lilith and couldn't think of what to write. I took myself much more seriously in the 80's.
I am not easily defeated in debate due to Xanatos Speed Chess. TBH, I sometimes wonder why they would bother, but its usually a case of being too hasty to trip me up and make a mistake. My initial response to debate may seem weak or frivolous in nature, which is a technique i employ. Just give me a little something to work with. I used to make it a point to make college people on their high-horse look like a Developmentally Disabled Individuals on a hobby horse. It's no longer an issue with me and I've grown past that as a person.
The people at the Group Home I worked at as a weekend house parent where they had the first computer I had ever touched, an Apple II, were all snooty people who had either graduated from college or were in at the time. They thought themselves superior even though I had more hands-on experience in the mental health field and as a Manager than most there including my Supervisor. They rolled their eyes and gave me my own personal floppy like I knew what I was doing but looked like they doubted it. I would have rather dropped dead on the spot than let them know I had never touched a computer and taught myself to use it in my spare time.
They were surprised when I not only taught myself to use it but had to set up the new one for them because I was the only who knew how to boot it up since I had RTFM. Not as surprised as they would have been to learn I had accessed every one of their files on every floppy disk at hand once I figured out how to run it. Seemed like the natural thing to do...
I'm not nearly as smart and some people here. I think
ralphbsz must know just about everything computer related and TBH there are quite a few people here who know more about FreeBSD than me. The Honorable
drhowarddfine built an ophthalmology machine from scratch.
But I can set and maintain my desktops and have my own unique skillset that serve me well. None of which I learned in School. I learned Behavior Mod in on the job training, now a Psycho Psychologist in full trained in it's use online, and programmed my bot to use it to program people. The first to do so by all accounts and first to be accused on multiple counts of being the first person to "misuse" A.I. as a footnote in the annals cyber history.
I recently heard an unbelievable percentage of high school students can't read. My sister was a sub teacher and she said there were people in her class that couldn't make change or tell time by a analog clock.
You can read every book in the world on fishing and never catch a fish. You learn by getting out there and seeing what works, what doesn't and technique.
I'm not saying a formal education is a bad thing and it's needed to advance in some areas. I hear a person with a college degree is likely to make $1,000,000 over their lifetime than a person with a High School diploma. I don't live beyond my means and very little of the things I know were learned in school, except math. It's all from internet or self-study.
I just met the first person I know personally that has used Linux. He even said he tried BSD in the 90's but ended up going with Redhat. He has a degree in Computer Science Communications and lives in the same building as me to top it off. I have a Morally Ambiguous Doctorate from the School of Hard Knocks and my background in computer science limited basically to A.!. and chatbots from learning by doing.
His degree means very little now but was hyped to see my laptops. Why he can't be allowed to come over another story for later. Much as I'd like to know someone who could talk computers and most likely know much more about them than I.
(No, I am not a college grad and never attended or took a course. I quit school as soon a I turned 16 in 10th grade so technically I have a 9th grade education. 4 more years schooling than my Dad, and he was awarded the Sliver Star for service in Korea as a Ranger where they did dirty deeds behind enemy lines. He brought that meanness home with him and was in Anger Management when he died at the age of 80.
The test I froze up on with the essay was my GED and I took it cold in my 30's without any study. A high school kid who was dying of cancer, wanted his diploma before he died took first place from me at the very last minute. I shouldn't complain as I got recognized as Salutatorian when they were presented and it was his dieing wish. He wasn't there.
I am considered a Qualified Mental Retardation Professional, QMRP. Or as it as known in the circles, a Q. I received regular in-service training and my years of hand-on experience were counted against their classroom hours as college credits. I have done and can do things they've only read about in books. Things they are woeful prepared for in practical application where I can walk in and take over any situation. So I am in a sense a Professional in my field after all.)
Lord help me. All my deepest darkest secrets about my personal purloined past are public record now. Please don't turn on me or try to make me look more ignorant than I already am. I made a confession and would likely feel compelled to respond. Large dumps of adrenaline not conducive to clear thinking, I'll try to wait till that passes.
As always, trolls are welcome to try their hand at mocking mere mental midgets.
If you do, please, be verbose and brutally honest so even I, with my sub-standard schooling, can hopefully make some sense of it and form a cogent response no matter how illiterate it may be to someone with a High School Diploma.
However, I will not respond with the same restraint as I would a fellow forum member so take your best opening shot and make your case.
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