Friday, April 14, 2017

A subtle psychological reason for hostility to Calculus in high school


I can sense a subtle ideological reason for hostility to calculus. The subject focuses on the reality of CHANGE in the real physical world and our own human social world. In formal logic A= A always and forever. But in science any " A " is always in motion or in a state of constant change. CHANGE is the constant even in our everyday life.

The psychological basis for conservatism is a fear of change - a clinging to the dead past. Nothing lasts - not the bull market, not empires, not the power of political bullies.
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