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Author of The End of Faith, The Moral Landscape, Waking Up, and other bestselling books published in over 20 languages. Host of the Waking Up podcast.

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    Sam Harris‏Verified account @SamHarrisOrg Aug 19

    From the math professor you wish you had in high school... https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf …

    5:04 PM - 19 Aug 2018
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      2. Eric Weinstein‏Verified account @EricRWeinstein Aug 19
        Replying to @SamHarrisOrg

        It’s really odd what a cult piece this has become. Much of this is common to many mathematicians but his critique of proofs in geometry was really new to me....and spot on.

        12 replies 16 retweets 213 likes
      3. Tony Coniglio  🇺🇸‏ @tonyapc42 Aug 19
        Replying to @EricRWeinstein @SamHarrisOrg

        If you’re still doing a YouTube channel/taking votes on it, mine is for alt-learning of math, physics, music, language for the teaching disabled.

        2 replies 0 retweets 24 likes
      4. Eric Weinstein‏Verified account @EricRWeinstein Aug 19
        Replying to @tonyapc42 @SamHarrisOrg

        This goes right to the heart of teaching disabilities.

        3 replies 0 retweets 23 likes
      5. Link Hamilton‏ @link_hamilton Aug 19
        Replying to @EricRWeinstein @tonyapc42 @SamHarrisOrg

        I'd also love if you did an overview/series of alt-learning lessons of the kinds of mathematical and/or economics concepts that you think most people should know

        0 replies 0 retweets 15 likes
      6. End of conversation
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      2. J Fisher‏ @sineof1 Aug 19
        Replying to @SamHarrisOrg

        This is a superb document, which is, unfortunately, often waved around in education in support of ideas or initiatives of dubious quality--most often wrongly interpreted to be a call to skip over the tedious slog of learning anything and get right to the "creative" stuff.

        1 reply 0 retweets 10 likes
      3. Jeffrey Stewart‏ @jffrystwrt Aug 20
        Replying to @sineof1 @SamHarrisOrg

        math is inherently creative. Maybe you don't remember, but often our math teachers would require specific methods of solving tedious problems and dock points for not applying this method. Kids learn math is just a bunch of formulas, rather then what is actually is.

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      4. J Fisher‏ @sineof1 Aug 20
        Replying to @jffrystwrt @SamHarrisOrg

        And that's bad too, yes.

        0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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      2. Giovanni Lido‏ @Giovanni_Lido Aug 19
        Replying to @SamHarrisOrg

        …wish you *had had…

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      3. LERNER‏ @LRNR Aug 20
        Replying to @Giovanni_Lido @SamHarrisOrg

        you're right of course. But why does Sam's sentence sound OK too, even though I know it's wrong?

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Giovanni Lido‏ @Giovanni_Lido Aug 20
        Replying to @LRNR

        Would be perfect for someone still *in* high school. 🙂

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. LERNER‏ @LRNR Aug 20
        Replying to @Giovanni_Lido

        there's a native ring to it--you know what I mean, it's not that kind of mistake that would give someone away as a non-native speaker

        2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      6. LERNER‏ @LRNR Aug 20
        Replying to @LRNR @Giovanni_Lido

        would be interesting to see if this particular mistake after "wish" is more common with certain subjects

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      7. GinuwineDiphthong‏ @dreadfulprof Aug 20
        Replying to @LRNR @Giovanni_Lido

        wish you’d had easily corrupts to wish you had while maintaining the vocalism and prosody (two major criteria we use sub/unconsciously to determine correct usage).

        2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      8. LERNER‏ @LRNR Aug 20
        Replying to @dreadfulprof @Giovanni_Lido

        an exceedingly satisfying explanation--thank you

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      9. GinuwineDiphthong‏ @dreadfulprof Aug 20
        Replying to @LRNR @Giovanni_Lido

        You’re welcome, of course :)

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      10. End of conversation
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      2. Go Figure‏ @pereOlthwaite Aug 19
        Replying to @SamHarrisOrg

        The mathematics underlying the fundamental laws of electromagnetism is considered beyond the reach of undergraduate math-specialists. Is that a scandal, or is it just that volumetric integration is really, really hard? Either way, the electrons don't care.

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      2. Jamie Kilstein‏Verified account @jamiekilstein Aug 19
        Replying to @SamHarrisOrg

        Does it just say “you probably won’t need math?”

        1 reply 0 retweets 10 likes
      3. Daniel M. Watkins‏ @d_m_watkins Aug 19
        Replying to @jamiekilstein @SamHarrisOrg

        You should read it! It’s short and eloquent.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. GameBarSpaceStation‏ @SpaceStationBar Aug 19
        Replying to @d_m_watkins @jamiekilstein @SamHarrisOrg

        25 pages is tl;dr. Google home, dictate this for me!

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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