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2018-06-21 Home Front: Culture Wars

Professor: Learning Math Can Cause ‘Collateral Damage' to Society

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-06-21 01:44|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Math is only acceptable if it feels good.

Posted by Glenmore 2018-06-21 01:57|| 2018-06-21 01:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Reading about the dangers of smoking may make you uncomfortable about smoking those 2 packs a day.

Best to stop reading.

Posted by CrazyFool 2018-06-21 02:56|| 2018-06-21 02:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Applying ethics without being able to quantify the causes or effects will surely lead to good outcomes.

Posted by Fester Hitler5303 2018-06-21 05:20|| 2018-06-21 05:20|| Front Page Top

#4 But really want 2 + 2 to be 5. It would be more inclusive. Besides 4 is such an uncaring facist pig

Posted by Cheaderhead 2018-06-21 05:44|| 2018-06-21 05:44|| Front Page Top

#5 Do the math. It theoretically proves your leftist knuckle dragging professor is an ïdiot every time.

Posted by Eohippus Sproing7694 2018-06-21 05:56|| 2018-06-21 05:56|| Front Page Top

#6 "provides a training in ethics-free thought."

Think about it. The author is saying that math creates free thinking. Can't have that, now can we?

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2018-06-21 09:32|| 2018-06-21 09:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Problem solving, critical thinking? ....but we have Washington for that.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-06-21 09:35|| 2018-06-21 09:35|| Front Page Top

#8 I always thought Euclid, Pythagoras, Newton, and Leibniz were evil bastids.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-06-21 10:20|| 2018-06-21 10:20|| Front Page Top

#9 If the education system is morphed into the form of military academy-like institutions where a 'group-think' is indoctrinated instead of classical liberal arts...
Wait a minute, does that sound like Evergreen College, or UC Berkeley?

Posted by magpie 2018-06-21 12:15|| 2018-06-21 12:15|| Front Page Top

#10 Never met anyone with a degree in in math education who understood math.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-06-21 12:17|| 2018-06-21 12:17|| Front Page Top

#11 Wait a minute, does that sound like Evergreen College, or UC Berkeley?

Sounds like target rich environment for me.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-06-21 12:18|| 2018-06-21 12:18|| Front Page Top

#12 Met a young man with a Physics degree from Evergreen College. Talk about bitter. He is so so pissed off that now nobody will take him seriously just because the leftist professors in the humanities departments went insane.

Posted by 3dc 2018-06-21 12:34|| 2018-06-21 12:34|| Front Page Top

#13 So to paraphrase, math leads to logic, logic leads to conservative thinking.

Posted by rjschwarz 2018-06-21 13:40|| 2018-06-21 13:40|| Front Page Top

#14 Liberal mind in a nutshell: feelings over facts, emotion over rationality.

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