Favorite quotes from Robert and Ellen Kaplan: We have the assurance of the winners that no one minds losing... And where the fellowship of long discussions about complex ideas? Is teh goal of understanding to be replaced by merely triumphing over some roomful of other people? These are the people who see mathematics as a thicket to hack through before being allowed to get on with ones life The more competitive will enjoy relegating others to somewhere outside their own snug elitism. The first of these bypassed assumptions in the mistaken view that what best serves mathematics is a narrow cast of net: contests that call to a specialized sect, from which steadily fewer are chosen. But wouldnt it be better to let as many people as possible, brimming with self-confidence, probe these mysteries?. Their book, Out of the Labyrinth is as applicable to science and every other subject as it is to the mysteries of math. School as it is conceived and run, with its emphasis on competition and a pecking order, is emotionally and intellectually destructive and bankrupt.
Posted on: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 07:51:20 +0000
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