Difficult Problems, And Why Students need them.

If all the maths problems given at Eternally Taught were easy for the students, their strength would soon be illusionary. Lacking difficult problems, their minds would soon lose their strength. The power to think rigorously would be diminishing. Yet success with light problems would still give the impression that strength remains, while in reality strength is being lost. The mind must work, “Unless it is made to think hard, it will surely lose its power of thinking.” (Ellen White)

It must not be forgotten that the goal of education is to prepare students for life. Life that is full of many difficult problems that cannot be solved in one sitting, problems that need much reflection, much attention, and much perseverance. If education accustomed students to problems that could be solved by a casual glance, it would be preparing students to be discouraged by many of life’s problems that are not as easily solved.

So, for strength and as preparation to meet life’s problems, Eternally Taught trains students to love difficult problems. Problems that will develop the resilience, attention and strength to meet life’s difficult problems, which tend to be life's important problems.