If your were shown algebra in first grade you wouldn’t get it. But as you learned basic math step by step, you were able to use it to understand more.
And so it is with anything you want to learn. By learning what you can, you can use your new knowledge to understand more. When you become a specialist at something useful that not a lot of people know as well as you do, your value in the marketplace increases.
Compound your learning ability, by learning something new today.
Actually, I take exception to the comment that a first grader cannot do algebra. My son was in first grade and was doing 6th grade math – algebra, while most of his friends were struggling with 2 + 2 + 4.
If you reread the statement it does not say that first graders cannot do algebra. It says if you were first shown algebra in first grade you would not be able to get it, which is true. If you had no knowledge of basic math at any age and someone asked you to solve an algebraic equation- you’d look at them like they were nuts. You first have to learn the basic steps in anything you do before you can move on to the harder ones.