Re: Despite high school algebra focus, more students need remedial college math

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 Pubkeybreaker <pubkeybreaker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> >You can get into Oxford or Cambridge Universities (in the
> > UK) with no formal mathematics qualification, which if you are
British,
> > means you may be unable to master algebra.
> 
> Whatever happened to "jack of all trades and master of one"?
> This last viewpoint discards "jack of all trades".

I have never heard this expression.  I am familiar with the disparaging
"Jack 
of all trades -- and master of none," which implies the person has a
surface 
familiarity with a large number of subjects but no deep understanding of 
anything.

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