User blog comment:Primussupremus/Why isn't Googology taught in schools?/@comment-172.58.83.157-20170530181640/@comment-30754445-20170531225455

"That's one interperation of it but in my opinion Googology is a lot more than just a hobby rather it is an unapreciated branch of mathematics that should be studied in the academic field"

I agree with you.

But the fact remains that most googologists don't give the field the respect it deserves.

I mean... Why would anybody teach googology in school, when the biggest proponents of googology think that the main point of it is just to make bigger and bigger numbers and give them crazy names?

There's nothing wrong with this side of googology, but it firmly establishes the field as a fun hobby and nothing more. Especially when the goal of making "the largest number I can think of" nearly always comes at the expense of actually understanding what we're doing. Why would anybody even dream of teaching this at school, when the field itself looks like that?

(Actually, to be fair, I think that teaching fun intellectual hobbies at school would be a great idea. If schools were a little less serious and a little more fun, kids would learn more. But that's an entirely different discussion)