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Originally Posted by kerry edwards
... There's something different about Math. Is this difference worth modifying its role in the curriculum?
I suspect that Math is somehow hard wired in the brain in a manner similar to the way in which language is hard wired although the differences in the quality of wiring differs more with Math than with language.
There are millions of dollars being spent in higher education on remedial classes necessary to get students through their college alegbra course. Would this money be better spent on higher level math courses for students who actually want to study Math?
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Mightn't there be hard-wiring (and lack thereof) for any subject or discipline? Why not call it "a college for people who like sociology and art and stuff but think mathematics is too hard"?
This might be of benefit to people interested in science, engineering, and mathematics. They would no longer be burdened with smarty-pants PhD's forcing them into trivial classes like sociology and music and philosophy and other crap and could thus, concentrate on what is important to them.
Then we could have colleges separate from each other and get rid of that whole notion of universal education. The chances are we would be embarking on a new tower to replace the Ivory ones of Pointy-headed fame. It would be a tower of mutual incomprehensibility, where seemingly intelligent people would be unable to communicate, having no common educational paradigm. Instead, they would Babel.
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