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Life is Simple
Life is Simple
The Midwest Cattleman · February 2, 2023 · P5

Copyright 2023, ated that almost everything my career. Unfortunately, high Mr. Bruffett finally asked me
Jerry Crownover I understood—and wanted to school rolled around and my to stay after class.
understand—related to agri- previous success in arithmetic “How are your calves doing
culture. If they could tap into led me to be placed in some- this fall?”
that, they had me. thing called algebra. X, Y and Happy to talk about any-
During my elementary Z, instead of numbers, made thing besides algebra, I replied
years, I enjoyed the subject of no sense to me, nor could I see that they were growing pretty
arithmetic. Figuring up how how it would ever benefit my good, but that I was thinking
much a calf was worth, based success as a farmer. about increasing the protein
on the price per pound, was a Mr. Bruffett was my alge- of their ration, to try and get
challenge I gladly accepted. I bra teacher, and an ace edu- them to gain a little faster. He
could readily see the impor- cator. After only a couple of inquired about what ingredi-
tance of addition, subtraction, weeks, he could sense that I ents I was using in my feed,
multiplication and division was not only struggling with and I informed him that corn
(even long division), in what I the subject matter, but that I
had already decided, would be had absolutely zero interest. continued on page 12
Throughout all of my years
as a student, I’ve always found
it essential to understand why
I needed to learn the subject
matter. If teachers could ex-
plain why it was important for
me to learn what they were
teaching, and how it was going
to help my future, I could usu-
ally pay attention and absorb
the material easily. If not, I
was likely to be daydreaming.
Luckily, just about all of my
teachers, in my small, rural
community, did a little farm-
ing on the side, and appreci-

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