Personally, I think we do our entire species a disservice if students can’t access free math education up through Calculus. Where it gets muddy for me is how much should be compulsory, especially if it generates math anxiety. I don’t have a good answer.
There are enough humans, and enough work. We need to stop treating all humans as one-of-a-kind unicorns, and see ourselves as a collective species again. On the same page, the opposite is somehow true. Maybe this sounds confusing, but I don't know how to state it better.
We have to face the reality that while all humans are equal at birth - something I firmly believe in - the upbringing may inhibit or express essential traits for certain professions. Some may have mathematical/logical talent by upbringing, some may have musical talent. some may be polymaths, some may be anxious for anything abstract. All have value, and the sooner we acknowledge this, the faster we can accept that there are people deserving more musical, more mathematical or more manual tutoring.
We can't treat billions of individuals as equals, they are individuals. They are not races though, or ethnics, those are dynamic.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 15.3 ms ] threadWe have to face the reality that while all humans are equal at birth - something I firmly believe in - the upbringing may inhibit or express essential traits for certain professions. Some may have mathematical/logical talent by upbringing, some may have musical talent. some may be polymaths, some may be anxious for anything abstract. All have value, and the sooner we acknowledge this, the faster we can accept that there are people deserving more musical, more mathematical or more manual tutoring.
We can't treat billions of individuals as equals, they are individuals. They are not races though, or ethnics, those are dynamic.