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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1871149" data-attributes="member: 812">If you're not using Shakespeare every day, you just aren't living.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />And of course, for a DM, it's ALL grist for the mill, isn't it? Coastal erosion patterns? Sure, I need to know how those work. Bacteria reproduction? Huh, that gives me an idea for a spell that replicates itself...Keep in mind that "most" of what you learn in school you don't learn in the classroom. School is where we put people who don't know how to behave in society and keep them for the twelve-thirteen years it takes to prove you know the rules. Classes are just things for them to do in the meantime.Math requires a kind of abstract thinking and some people never seem to learn that "jump" out of the material world into the abstract world of math. They have trouble thinking of numbers as just numbers, and the whole thing seems really pointless and unwieldy to them. My mom, my sisters and my wife are all like that. They have real trouble working with anything more sophisticated than bookkeeping-type operations. And they're all of them smart, smart women. I don't know if it's in their genes, or the way they were taught or what.It's a funny old world.</blockquote>