Life Through Western Eyes

…listening to the employees talk about how they’re graduating in a couple of weeks.  Pretty admirable that they survived 4 years of college, but then they try to figure out how much they’re making that day and are incapable of doing some simple multiplication in their head and have to resort to a calculator.  Now I know a lot of people “suck at math,” or at least claim to, but you really shouldn’t be able to graduate from a some-what-known university, or any university at all in my opinion, if you can’t even do basic arithmetic without running to a calculator.  I’m not asking everyone to be some Guass-like math genius, but most jobs require you to do at least a little math, even if subtle.  Even if it isn’t required, it would benefit you greatly to at least know how to multiply 7 and 16 without turning to some machine to do your work for you.