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still misses the mark Okay, but we still want you to admit that GP was subsumed by the article.

• kristopolous 7mo ago
  It's a different targeting. The article is great in teaching modern empirical methods However the problem lies in the lesson of new math - which was an effort to teach actual mathematician mathematics starting in elementary school as opposed to the number manipulating arithmetic that most people need. As a result only future mathematicians really understood it and most people were baffled by it. I like the sentiment but we have to acknowledge that our favorite thing in the world, whatever it is, is simply unapproachable to others I run into this problem constantly with my software efforts. I think my stuff is obvious but everybody else thinks it's too arcane and obscure. To reference a deep cut from 1945, Norman Corwin, Variety magazine, article "Radio not in a class by itself" "[Radio] rises no higher and sinks no lower than the society which produces it." A few paragraphs later, "I believe people get the kind of radio, or pictures, or theater, or press they deserve... The gist of what I am saying is that the radio of this country cannot be considered apart from the general culture... If the American people support soap operas and tolerate singing commercials; if they pay higher honor to Gildersleeve than to Beethoven, then it is not primarily the job of radio to elevate their tastes." And so with education - we can only build from the legos in the bucket.