Perspective of a Russian teacher

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I don't read it to the the end, but it's quite interessing.

^^A Russian Teacher in America^^

(BTW, I can't figure out it's middle school math problems. )

I want this professor! I loved my Russian professor for calc 1. She was sooo much better than the prof I had for calc 2. He only wanted memorization (& never showed proofs or anything useful) while she actually expected us to stretch (& showed proofs, walked us thru a couple "stretchy" problems, etc.).

It's funny reading the description of the problems of Russia because it fits with others I've heard/read before...everyone was an engineer but no one was a philosopher so nothing was ever accomplished because both sides are needed to progress.

Unfortunately, here we don't have philosophers and are quickly losing engineers (at least well-trained, world-class ones). All we have are car salesmen and other scam artists. A fast track to war.

Dang that was a long read... Yeah, I have to agree with it a lot, because I switched from a BS to BA just because I'd have to take Business Calculus (I lasted a week. It was everything in high school that they said I'd never need to know... I'd still be in college if it was required...

I've heard from some professors how they just want to do research, and teaching is a distraction. True enough.

But lawsy, just give me some rules for math that work, it's all I ask...

Extremely interesting article on prevalent attitudes on education in America. Thanks for posting this.