Ну да, кризис, "Math is hard" and "Math is not cool", с одной стороны, с другой - хороших преподавателей, вроде как, не хватает (но их всегда не хватает, и откуда им взяться, если math is not cool), с третьей, учим-то кого, Generation Me, эгоцентриков, look at me - you will see someone very special, that is me. Поэтому такие штуки, думаю, в обозримом будущем в этой стране не пройдут:
Back in the late 1950s, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first satellite to orbit the earth. This induced a panic in the US, where it was perceived that US technological superiority---and therefore life, liberty, and the American Way---were all in mortal danger. One outcome was the passage of the National Defense Education Act, which provided substantial federal funding for schools, with emphasis on math.
We can cut the math from the curriculum because it's it's hard, because it's ego-deflating, etc. But somehow, I don't think that up-and-coming countries like China and India are going to subscribe to this approach; and so it's only a matter of time until it's deja vu, all over again.
Unless, of course, our national ideal is to reduce ourselves to third-world status, as so often seems the case these days. If that's what you're after, the let's-not-do-algebra thought is doin' it right.
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Date: 2012-07-30 04:05 am (UTC)Back in the late 1950s, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first satellite to orbit the earth. This induced a panic in the US, where it was perceived that US technological superiority---and therefore life, liberty, and the American Way---were all in mortal danger. One outcome was the passage of the National Defense Education Act, which provided substantial federal funding for schools, with emphasis on math.
We can cut the math from the curriculum because it's it's hard, because it's ego-deflating, etc. But somehow, I don't think that up-and-coming countries like China and India are going to subscribe to this approach; and so it's only a matter of time until it's deja vu, all over again.
Unless, of course, our national ideal is to reduce ourselves to third-world status, as so often seems the case these days. If that's what you're after, the let's-not-do-algebra thought is doin' it right.
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