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> Math is hard, and hard things can only be mastered through discipline.

There are certainly some things you can only learn effectively by doing them a lot. There are also other things that you've sort of got to learn by rote memorization (e.g. times tables, various formulas). I'm not aware of anything you can only learn effectively by the threat of physical violence.

For what it's worth, I was taught logic and set theory well before I learned things like long division. Somehow, it made me like math more, and I had no problems with long division either. Maybe it might have helped more if I'd been beaten though- not sure.



You really don't think so? Personally, threats of physical violence are very persuasive. Yeah I'll memorize that multiplication table.




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