a) appalled (seriously?? how can this even qualify as basic Geometry without this piece??) and,
b) irked (this was the bit of math education that revealed the sheer beauty of higher mathematics and tethered it to the Socratic method and the ancient Greeks and Arabic traditions of learning... why... why... why...)
I honestly never saw the point of geometry, to tell you the truth.
I don't think I even know what a geometric proof *is* or any "why" to go along with geometry.
I was tutored in it so that I could get to Calculus, which I suppose I understand a little better, meaning that i can auto-generate the answer pretty well in a very short period of time. Well, I used to be able to do that.
