[laredo44]

Rather, it produces anti-capitalist feeling among verbal intellectuals. Why do the numbersmiths not develop the same attitudes as these wordsmiths? I conjecture that these quantitatively bright children, although they get good grades on the relevant examinations, do not receive the same face-to-face attention and approval from the teachers as do the verbally bright children. It is the verbal skills that bring these personal rewards from the teacher, and apparently it is these rewards that especially shape the sense of entitlement.

I would offer that numeric excercises provide rewards independent of the instructor while verbal exercises do not. In other words, the numerically bright find objective confirmation of their brightness while the verbally bright must always depend on subjective confirmation from some higher human authority for their value. This easily conforms to a preference for society based on a hierarchical arrangement of humans among the verbally bright. Capitalism is not that system.

[gcruse]

True. Plus, the number types are exposed to a lot less social sciences than the writer types. Oddly, though, the core curricula usually make the math types take soshe, without making the soshe types take math. You can tell from that which types run the universities.

[BamaGirl]

Oh, I copied exactly what you said.