Reddit reviews The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined

Well, this is the general history of post-revolutionary France. France went through 2 monarchies and 2 empires to get a stable Republic.

Fighting the influence of the Catholic church has been the obsession of Republicans and for the Catholic church fighting the Republic has been an obsession too.

France was late to give the voting right to women and one of the main argument was that women were dominated by morality and they would follow the sermons of priests and this would be the end of the Republic and the return of the monarchy with the Catholic church behind it.

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The part about school being used to turn the sons of peasants into factory workers in more universal though. As far as I know, it's called the Prussian (or Russian ?) model.

You can read for example the first part of this book from Salman Khan (the founder of Khan Academy) on the origins of industrial era schools.

https://www.amazon.com/One-World-Schoolhouse-Education-Reimagined/dp/1455508373

You can also find talks by him on Youtube.

If you want something shorter, there is this famous TED animation about a talk by Ken Robinson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U (I disagree with a lot of what is said in this video though, it's full of bullshit and wishful thinking)

Take a read of "The One World Schoolhouse" by Sal Khan (of Khan Academy). You can get it for less than $1 on Amazon (used).

He goes over why our school systems are they way they are, how to better optimize them, and more. Really fantastic book and a pretty quick read.

Whenever this topic comes up, I recommend reading the one world schoolhouse. It tells the story behind khanacademy.org and in the process it talks about how poor of a job the current education system does teaching math. It highlights the problems created by it.

It really pissed me off reading it because I fell into every one of the traps created by the system just as you have too. I felt robbed by my own education.

The good news is that it's not too late for you to correct your problems and make math easy again. You just have to start over at the beginning.

Follow your passion. This is a field that is full of people that just figured it out.

Computer science is a big field. Math does not overlap with much of it. You can fail out of college math and still be amazing at programming. We like to think they are closely linked. Being good with logic is the important requirement.

There are some very common patterns in programming that have very little to do with math. Get input from user, save data, query data, present data to user, send/receive data to some other system. I won't say that math will not help you, but it is not required to do any of that.

Your failure at math may not be your entirely your fault. To fix your math problem, you need to start over. Fix your issues with early math (That you may not realize that you have) and the later stuff gets easier. https://www.khanacademy.org/ This book by the same person explains what I am talking about: [One World Schoolhouse] http://www.amazon.com/One-World-Schoolhouse-Education-Reimagined/dp/1455508373/ref=la_B00DIE8GXS_1_1_twi_pap_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1457283970&sr=1-1