Thread. Especially true of mathematics, because most students regardless of major have to take dismal forced-march classes like 'pre-calculus'. Horrible. Students don't see real math until they're out of calculus, by which point they are (and ought to be) disgusted. https://twitter.com/Scholars_Stage/status/1132844224053833729 …
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Replying to @St_Rev
The calculus education in this country is more or less obscene -- not one teacher in the public schools I went through had any familiarity with rigorous analysis, absolutely no historical perspective, lacking in knowledge of basic insights...
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Cargo culture. I blame Sputnik. FedGov decided we needed millions of engineers, so calculus displaced geometry.
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.