Humanity and Mathematics

So I was chilling on Facebook earlier and I came across this little gem.

Math Education: An Inconvenient Truth

I have to say its probably one of the most interesting things that I have seen lately.

When I was in school we did something kind of like this in our primary schools. We even "learned" matrix multiplication in 5th grade.

Mathematics has always been my downfall in life. While everyone is "taught" to believe that computer programming needs tons of math it really doesn't  Most programs are just basic math, applied in specific patterns. I took Computer Organization which deals a lot with assembly , and for the most part I understood it. I understood how the basic math (mostly shifts) were applied what I struggled with most was memorizing the formulas for applying the shifts. I feel like in this day and age a lot of emphasis is placed on memorization, and for classes its almost always short term memorization.  Consider for example any class that you have taken within the 1 year to 2 years, if you were confronted with that material today and tested on it how would you do?

I really liked how in this video the authors of those books said that they found it an incorrect use of time when it comes to memorizing algorithms for solving basic math problems, that seems to be the general direction of our universities as well. When we pay for classes like World Cultures we are essentially paying to learn something short term, and therefore never are fully learning it and by not learning it (could be argued that this is based on the motivational level of each individual) we are only learning the skill momentarily the difference between what the middle schools and universities are teaching is only based on the content difficulty. If the purpose of a university is to prepare us for our future employment then why are we being taught to forget what we've learned after 14 weeks? By the logic of the middle schools they are implying that nothing we are learning in college is important enough to remember through graduation. If this is the logic they are following then why in the hell does society demand that I be here?

I wrote a video game once (approx 12 years old at the time) in which the main character had 360 degrees of movement, and was able to shoot in the direction of the mouse click. In order to do this, I used Google to search for an algorithm to do what I needed. If universities and schools are teaching short term learning, and anything can be found on Google then why doesn't education revolve around learning how to accomplish everything with a search engine? After all Google is a cesspool of information, both good and bad, just like textbooks. I suppose everyone has an opinion on this subject but It is my true belief that formal education will diminish before I am and dead, and all education, and the knowledge of every human being will be on place like Google. The world wide web will become reality, individuals will be able to reason through problems more effectively while knowing little about anything, all of the experts of the world will cease to exist and the summation of humanity will become completely digital.