Posted on 10/24/2017 5:30:28 PM PDT by cq
India figured large, but ah... they’re tan Caucasians.
Ever wonder why India has made such a big splash in information technology? They carried that gift through generations and generations.
I’m a mentor now to an Indian fellow whose programming is as smart as the proverbial whip. I wonder if he’ll put me out of a job... well, actually I don’t think so since my job is to look into the more abstruse aspects of the task at hand, a high performance data server system. So this guy’s skills as a technician make it possible for me to embrace a higher echelon of thought.
That’s kind of what being citified can do to a soul.
And let’s not forget quantum mechanics with Mesons, Muons and Tau - OH MY!
FWIW.
The Post-Modernist leftist are moving beyond a world without God.
Class and gender warfare can’t hold a candle to the new front in this war.
The new battle ground?
Intelligence is relative?
The winning never ends, to see the left go collectively more and more insane every day is like Christmas every day. Better, it’s like Christmas with endless birthday cake.
Yes, they are. Those that are really behind it are doing it on purpose. People like this dipwad, are doing it because they are warped.
Come to think of it, I don’t remember ever having heard a redneck say anything that stupid.
Righties need to examine their own presumptions too. Less mad is still mad.
So, this twit did not recall a movie called “Hidden Figures”?
White privilege has been perpetuated not only by the ability to solve geometry and algebra problems, but also by such regressive counter-revolutionary tactics as steady work, savings, sobriety, maintaining clean criminal records and fathers participating in child rearing.
Such racist, patriarchal practices of oppression will have no place in the new order.
The “liberal” goal has always been and always will be to drop the bar to the lowest common denominator. Always.
As a former math teacher and before that a student I can agree with one part of the article. We do use math as a sort of rite of achievement to pursue higher education. It has long been a requirement to take two math courses to apply to most four year schools. For many years the two courses were algebra to teach logical substitution and geometry, to teach reasoning to conclusions.
This has held a lot of students back, when they could not handle these subjects. (In fact they were easy for me but I have had to tutor and push many kids in my day because these subjects do not come easily to everyone.)
There does seem to be a cultural separation here as some people know but my guess is that it is rooted in the deep past for students who “don’t get it”. Probably if they had better teachers in the early grades, getting these fairly simple concepts in high school would not be the road block that the author is identifying.
Hence my support for charter schools and school choice. In particular when hiring and firing decisions are involved.
How pathetic. Didn’t she ever watch “Hidden Numbers”.
You’ve got a good point here about one size not fitting all.
Maybe students should be evaluated for aptitudes in a multitude of areas. And lessons tailored to their aptitudes, of course with room allowed for them to go higher if desire moves them to strive especially hard in that direction.
And well, I only did fair at calculus, but it got me through engineering school. Many of the more abstruse examples were lost on me. I just couldn’t understand the lust, the zest, the verve expressed by “real” mathematicians about this kind of thing. Please. This became drudgery, not pleasure. My mind can juggle the symbols well enough to get through engineering, but please don’t put me through the equivalent of calisthenics. My grey matter never was up to that.
so if one has not worked to receive the education given, and math is spelled maf then one could pontificate that everything would be racist to explain the glaring idiocy
of said student so they could feel good about being toopid..
cant believe so many black folks fall for this bs..
gotta love them engineers..smile
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