and for newer generations: yes teach, i will always have a calculator in my pocket, so fuck you very much.

I will never understand the insistence on making people memorize things before they know if they’ll ever have a use for it, we live in an age where you can just look things up within seconds and there is a whole profession which is specifically built around copying from others (programming).

People are capable of memorizing things that come up a lot, there’s no need to pre-emptively memorize when we have computers and the internet.