It's working exactly the way he has argued for in earlier writings: as a way to weed out students and have them memorize meaningless procedures. Two years ago

It's working exactly the way he has argued for in earlier writings: as a way to weed out students and have them memorize meaningless procedures. Two years ago he was arguing that "it's survival of the fittest; the process has no respect for the individual, but overall is extremely effective." http://devlinsangle.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-darwinization-of-higher-education.html http://devlinsangle.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-darwinization-o... And before that, he was arguing that math is basically just a meaningless symbol game of memorizing: "more advanced parts of the subject are created and learned as rule-specified, and often initially meaningless, "symbol games." ....must be learned in much the same way we learn to play chess: first merely following the rules, with little comprehension..." https://plus.google.com/+DougHolton/posts/hJ35zfWYofF https://plus.google.com/+DougHolton/posts/hJ35zfWYofF Luckily, a few colleges and instructors are trying to actually teach and support student learning in these classes, instead of just acting as gatekeepers who don't have a problem with high failure rates: http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/12/intro-college-science-classes-that-enable-instead-of-weed/ http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/12/intro-college-scienc...