Unlike intellectuals who usually begin at first principles and then reason towards final conclusions, my writing has always started from first-hand experiences.
There is an alarming situation in education at the moment as well. The watered down “New Math” and “Common Core” techniques have made the recent generation generally unable to teach math at a level that we assumed before. Each generation must pass the baton to the next or the knowledge and wisdom will disappear. Now we are having the incompetent struggle through math instruction leaving the current generation even more confused. And this is happening at both public and private schools as the private ones have drunk their own kool-aid and watered down even more (assuming they can coast on their records). It’s very bad and only a change of leadership could right the ship.
There is an alarming situation in education at the moment as well. The watered down “New Math” and “Common Core” techniques have made the recent generation generally unable to teach math at a level that we assumed before. Each generation must pass the baton to the next or the knowledge and wisdom will disappear. Now we are having the incompetent struggle through math instruction leaving the current generation even more confused. And this is happening at both public and private schools as the private ones have drunk their own kool-aid and watered down even more (assuming they can coast on their records). It’s very bad and only a change of leadership could right the ship.