It's a different targeting. The article is great in teaching modern empirical methods
However the problem lies in the lesson of new math - which was an effort to teach actual mathematician mathematics starting in elementary school as opposed to the number manipulating arithmetic that most people need.
As a result only future mathematicians really understood it and most people were baffled by it.
I like the sentiment but we have to acknowledge that our favorite thing in the world, whatever it is, is simply unapproachable to others
I run into this problem constantly with my software efforts. I think my stuff is obvious but everybody else thinks it's too arcane and obscure.
To reference a deep cut from 1945, Norman Corwin, Variety magazine, article "Radio not in a class by itself"
"[Radio] rises no higher and sinks no lower than the society which produces it." A few paragraphs later, "I believe people get the kind of radio, or pictures, or theater, or press they deserve... The gist of what I am saying is that the radio of this country cannot be considered apart from the general culture... If the American people support soap operas and tolerate singing commercials; if they pay higher honor to Gildersleeve than to Beethoven, then it is not primarily the job of radio to elevate their tastes."
And so with education - we can only build from the legos in the bucket.
kristopolous|12 days ago
However the problem lies in the lesson of new math - which was an effort to teach actual mathematician mathematics starting in elementary school as opposed to the number manipulating arithmetic that most people need.
As a result only future mathematicians really understood it and most people were baffled by it.
I like the sentiment but we have to acknowledge that our favorite thing in the world, whatever it is, is simply unapproachable to others
I run into this problem constantly with my software efforts. I think my stuff is obvious but everybody else thinks it's too arcane and obscure.
To reference a deep cut from 1945, Norman Corwin, Variety magazine, article "Radio not in a class by itself"
"[Radio] rises no higher and sinks no lower than the society which produces it." A few paragraphs later, "I believe people get the kind of radio, or pictures, or theater, or press they deserve... The gist of what I am saying is that the radio of this country cannot be considered apart from the general culture... If the American people support soap operas and tolerate singing commercials; if they pay higher honor to Gildersleeve than to Beethoven, then it is not primarily the job of radio to elevate their tastes."
And so with education - we can only build from the legos in the bucket.