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What would the ancient Greeks

Mark Frauenfelder at 11:20 am Fri, Mar 30, 2001

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What would the ancient Greeks have thougt of Rosie O'Donnell and guest Mary Stuart Masterson's opinion on the foolishiness of teaching math in schools? Rosie: "I think there's no way they should have to teach it, now. We have computers. We no longer need to know why 3X equals 2Y over 4. Or if a bus leaves Utah at 4 pm, how many blonde-haired people [are] on it? I mean, how the hell do you figure that out?" Masterson: "And why? Why would you want to know? Leave some things up to chance, you know?" (From the March 23, 2001 Rosie O'Donnell show.)

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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