Math and Science....
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talkpoliticsOne of our education system's biggest problems is that there is not enough emphasis on the Maths and Sciences.....America is falling behind in the world because our students are not gaining the necessary knowledge in these fields....
Too much emphasis on useless book learnin and abstruse theories and nto enough on PRACTICAL skills....students shoudl learn about the greatness of the Capitalist system, why Marxism is evil and Socialism doesn't work, how to invest in the stock market, balance their finances...and so on....
Arts and Humanities programs should be defunded since many teachers in those fields only fill students minds with revisionist histories and make them hate their country.....in addition,the skills learned in those fields are not as important as those of MATH and SCIENCE,which are the wave of the future....
Most academics can't even fix a doorknob....and yet they want to advocate for socialism....most of the socialists who support Obama have never ran a business....never done payroll,none of it...
Too much emphasis on useless book learnin and abstruse theories and nto enough on PRACTICAL skills....students shoudl learn about the greatness of the Capitalist system, why Marxism is evil and Socialism doesn't work, how to invest in the stock market, balance their finances...and so on....
Arts and Humanities programs should be defunded since many teachers in those fields only fill students minds with revisionist histories and make them hate their country.....in addition,the skills learned in those fields are not as important as those of MATH and SCIENCE,which are the wave of the future....
Most academics can't even fix a doorknob....and yet they want to advocate for socialism....most of the socialists who support Obama have never ran a business....never done payroll,none of it...
Please.
Date: 10/4/10 02:22 (UTC)EVERYONE has heard of them. And you didn't really explain how math helps people communicate. You showed that it has applications, and that's not the same thing.
My issue with quaternions is that they aren't a field. And we aren't going to find any fields beyond C. It's sort of sad--
Re: Please.
Date: 10/4/10 04:14 (UTC)I highly doubt that.
"And you didn't really explain how math helps people communicate".
Speaking of communication, it would appear that you need a lot of help in that area. Chipuni up there made a couple of nonsensical statements:
I demonstrated that it wasn't so.
"And you didn't really explain how math helps people communicate".
I didn't do that because that was never my intention in the first place.
Re: Please.
Date: 10/4/10 06:36 (UTC)I thought the most essential part of what was being said was that math doesn't help people to communicate like the humanities do. I think that's a valid and important point-- and a good refutation of the "math is everything" nonsense that started this thread.
Have some respect for the irrational and don't go whipping out your quaternions to intimidate people. You would have done better to have pointed out the error in the proof in that user icon...
I didn't do that because that was never my intention in the first place.
Then you were doing what mathematicians do far to often: playing with abstractions and technicalities in the corner while the main idea goes sailing past your big 'ol head.
Re: Please.
Date: 11/4/10 06:55 (UTC)Err...bullshit.
That's one of the things which mathematics absolutely does.
The difference between mathematics and the humanities is simply the manner and technical content of what is being communicated. You might not think mathematic information is as relevant to human society as say, history, but you'd be wrong.