curiosity killed the cat...

 at the moment there is a recognition that new zealand children are failing at mathematics.

it would be good if those educators/pedagogues

  putting out these statements also offered some figures for comparative purposes otherwise it just becomes another kiwi grab for more funds.

anyway if it is true that such is the case then there should be reasons given for why and not just semi veiled  requests for more money to be injected into the system.

it is known that mathematicians are at their best beofre they are thirty and then the fire dies.

some physicists have been know to produce great work in middle aged when they have new love lifes.

hehehe.

anyway it is known in psychoanalytic circles that curiosity is a facility that is created in infancy when the the infant has never viewed or known the sexuality of the parents. or surrogates.

modern culture is under relentless attack from a media selling goods with sexual content accompanied by sexually explicit programming.

one the child has viewed this material then the infantile desire for knowledge is fulfilled and we have created a population of users and acquirers  rather than creaters themselves.