Why does my daughter need to know the surface area of a rhomboid?

Remember I was talking about education in another podcast and how it should just be

what they do in Norway, which is called forest kindergarten, and they just have the kids out in the forest, and they give them knives by the way,

and they can carve, you know, spikes, and they climb trees 100 feet high, and they get wet, and they get cold, and they learn what it's like to be wet and cold and to suffer,

and then they go to normal school. I don't think you should go to normal school till you're 13.

I think there should just be a giant playground where kids can play all day, and

if there are 5% of people are academic, and those people shouldn't have a trade, they should go to school, and they'll,

what about the playground, Gavin? That 5% they'll go up to a teacher. There's teachers all along the perimeter of my giant playground,

and they say, hey, what's with sharks? Are they like 5 million years old or 50 million? Aren't they all muscle?

And that teacher will touch that person on the shoulders and go, uh, yeah, come with me.

And he takes that kid to a room where they show them shark box, and they learn about the history of sharks, and they learn about predators, and, you know, the Thresher shark, and the Tiger Shark, and the whale shark, and all these different sharks, and then, you know, that person could end up being a marine biologist.

But outside of those few freaks that genuinely are curious and genuinely deserve to be there, no one goes to school.

Kids don't have recess anymore. When I was a kid, it was 15 minutes in the morning, you got outside to play, maybe it was 20, then there was a full hour at lunch, and then there's another 15 minute session.

Now they don't have the recess, they have the hour at lunch or 40 minutes or whatever it is, but, um, that includes eating. So they get outside to play, maybe 30 minutes, 20 minutes, 10 minutes,

and then some of these schools, they're so overpopulated that they stagger the lunch room. So some of these kids are having lunch at 10 a.m.

Then they don't eat dinner until 5 p.m. They're starving to death. Well, what happens is they come home, and they're so hungry that they snack on goldfish or some crap, and then they don't have, they're not hungry at dinner anymore.

They totally fuck up the kid's life. It's a giant daycare full of bullshit. My daughter is 11,

and she's calculating the surface area of not just cubes, but, no, sorry, the volume of these 3D triangles, cylinders, cubes, rhomboids. I think it's a rhomboid. Is that the thing that's like an octagon that's made into 3D?

I mean, I've never needed to know the volume of anything, and I'm half a century old.

I remember we used to study this. My dad made me take mass in college, which is the hardest thing on earth.

The only way you can take calculus and algebra in university is to have a large breakfast, knock off the night before, sit in the front row, and put your hand up maybe every two minutes with a question, and even then you get a D.

But we were finding the surface area of the function 3x plus y cubed spawn about the z axis. So it makes like a weird vase shape.

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