This book on Automata is pretty good but this little interjection made my eyes roll. He’s a college teacher but obviously clueless about the US education system. I bet he also thinks that “standards have gone down”
YES “bring back proofs based grade 9 geometry” —but the forces behind this change are a greater population but not funding education for the working class as well as the rich. Only some get real geometry.
Also, I have never in my life heard anyone claim this was about “feelings”
I have encountered far too many old people who lament that “kids these days don’t know logic or proofs” what this really seems to mean are one of two things:
*they have interacted with people who didn’t benefit from the liberal arts education that is standard for the upper class for the first time (possibly as their students) and are shocked not everyone got what they did
*they don’t agree with young people on many things and thus find them “illogical”
@futurebird this is a common complaint by every generation.
