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Tuesday, April 11, 2017

We should be living in the golden age of public education ( a dream of Isaac Asimov )


Do We Really Need To Learn Advanced Math? One Professor's Case For A More 'Practical' Approach

The sad situation cannot be helped by what the late great science writer Isaac Asimov( who taught biochemistry at a Boston medical school ) called " the cult of ignorance "in the United States.

 How can any first class public education system want kids to learn LESS math ?

 Today's personal computers were also his dream for making self-education all the more important - and interesting. We should be living in the golden age of public education.

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