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Posted on April 28, 2023
It is taken for granted by most parents that their children must learn mathematics to have a complete education and grow into competent adults. Moreover, outside of small circles, what comprises an education in mathematics has long been settled and formed into a rigid curriculum. We all know already what math is. And thus, when Paul Lockhart wrote A Mathematician’s Lament, he was well aware that he was up against a deep and strong prejudice.
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Although I cannot recall when I first learned to recognize the song of the Wood Thrush, I think it must have been a friend who was an accomplished naturalist who taught me to do so. I am keenly aware that well into my 30s, I still had no notion that there was such a thing as a Wood Thrush, nor had I learned its lovely song. In the two decades since becoming acquainted with it, I have had the delight of hearing the Wood Thrush (Hylocichla mustelina) in a variety of wooded settings, from Minnesota to New Jersey, on bluffs overlooking the Missouri River and on similar bluffs above the Shenandoah. And once—just once—I have seen one.
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For a nation built on the ideal of individual liberty, America has a bureaucracy problem. Perhaps no other nation has ever prided itself so much on the principle of individual liberty while also relying on a centralized Leviathan to administer its political apparatus. I don’t mean to say that it is the most bureaucratized nation (it is outdone by both France, China, and others in that regard), but the United States has a unique blind spot about the proportions of its bureaucracy, and this represents a contradiction in its public philosophy.
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