From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Sat Nov 23 2002 - 12:25:41 MST
George writes
> >The West could have listened to one nineteenth century
> >Englishman, Francis Galton, but chose instead to listen
> >to another, Karl Marx.
>
> Marx was German, not English.
Ethnically, yes. But he was writing from England where
he had made his home for some time.
Anyway, no one has addressed the *point* of my remark,
in connection with the Chinese school. I'm not really
sure how many people even get it. Despite what one other
wrote, there is NO WAY you are going to find a lot of
anglo kids doing what those chinese kids did. If you
think you can, I invite you to start teaching school
in California, and get a load of it with your own eyes.
Not long ago I started mentioning in a class on compass
and straight-edge constructions just which ones were
possible, and a fourth grader piped up, "the Fermat
primes are the ones you can construct". What color
was the bear?
Lee
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