A Teacher, a Text and a Culture: Could Poverty be the Root Cause?

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Could Poverty be the Root Cause?

We have problems here in the U.S., deep problems. Might this little piece get at the root of it?

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UnknownSeptember 26, 2013 at 8:01 PM
For people who have no bill cover insurance to rely on in case of unemployment, the issue of poverty can really be hard. The government should be able to address this issue before it blows out of proportion.
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Why "A Teacher, a Text and a Culture"?

One of the very best elementary geometry texts is Kiselev's Geometry. Alexander Givental has given us a superb English translation. In his introduction, Givental says this:

Elementary geometry occupies a singular place in secondary education. The acquiring of superb reasoning skills is one of those benefits from studying geometry whose role reaches far beyond mathematics education per se. Another one is the unlimited opportunity for nurturing creative thinking (thanks to the astonishingly broad difficulty range of elementary geometry problems that have been accumulated over the decades). Fine learning habits of those who dared to face the challenge remain always at work for them. A lack thereof in those who missed it becomes hard to compensate by studying anything else. Above all, elementary geometry conveys the essence of power of the theoretical method in its purest, yet intuitively and aesthetically appealing, form. Such high expectations seem to depend however on the appropriate framework: a teacher, a text, a culture.

How can the power of this little paragraph be denied? One would have to be dead to reason and beauty

both . . .