Not everybody wants be texting their 15-year-old asking how his math tutor was. They would rather be home looking at how the math tutor was today. But it is what it is.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.
Mathematics is as old as Man.
It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
You know, kids text a lot today. It's phenomenal.
It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.
So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.
I definitely taught my parents how to text and how to charge their phones.
Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.
The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.
The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world.