Posted on 12/01/2017 8:29:43 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
Indoctrination of today’s Students by the Far Left
I do cry for you, Champaign-Urbana. The truth is I have left you. Now through all of my quiet days. Your old promise of giving students an education. Was it all just an illusion? Forgive me for my sarcasm in taking liberty with Evita's famous lyrics, but Wright Street is fast becoming Wrong Street when we realize academia is indoctrinating rather than educating America’s young people.
Here is what a University of Illinois “academic” just published: "On many levels mathematics operates as Whiteness." In a newly published math education book, School of Education Professor Rochelle Gutierrez states that teachers “must be aware of identity politics surrounding the subject of math.” Apparently, some old white dude named Pythagoras is giving Gutierrez a hissy fit because she believes that, “Greek terms give Caucasians unearned credit for the subject of math."
Hang on. It gets worse. "Things cannot be known objectively; they must be known subjectively," claims Gutierrez. And then there is the gem that: "Math perpetuates racism and WHITE PRIVILEGE." (rg1@illinois.edu)
Now back to that old white dude named Pythagoras. Way back in C.570-494 B.C. he formulated the Pythagorean Theorem. "This constitutes a very rational mathematical approach to reason."
Pythagoras said that the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. And yes, Pythagoras is right every time, race and White Privilege be damned!
It has been a slow week down here in Florida and this old teacher has been spending way too much time fussing over what the Chicago south crazies are now teaching in classrooms I once attended. A soft subject instructor, Tariq Khan was arrested for assaulting 2 conservative students at a protest meeting right in front of...
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More likely, she's upset because she can't grasp the concept of a metric on a vector space.
“we realize academia is indoctrinating rather than educating America’s young people.”
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The absolute long and the short of edi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Education is self-education—PERIOD!
Nuff said!
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If only we had some kind of continent where people could go to live where there are no white people or math or technology, and all you need to get anything done is give a few extra dollars to the right government agent. Of course, criminals and and thugs and drug dealers get better treatment because they have more dollars, but thats the price of paradise.
Evil is insanity. The left has been partly and is going completely insane.
See, for example Compassion Or Compulsion?.
Let alone gauge theory and the Lagrangian, both invented by White guys.
I'd bet anything that the overwhelming majority of these idiots have very little academics in their college experience, as they tend to choose soft challenge-free majors like ______ studies, sociology, communications, education and art.
Hence, all the free time to agitate, bloviate and "demand".
The Pythagorean Theorem only applies to white triangles.
Also true, but I was going after the fact she was bothered by the Pythagorean Theorem.
Critical theory (collectivist equality by government force) is just that, a theory.
Let’s eliminate the white man’s math when we install electricity or build a structure, and see what happens.
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