A Mathematician's Lament
Ratings1
Average rating5
This is the BEST book on education ever — I’ve read it a couple times now and it just makes me so sad that I didn’t have a teacher like Paul Lockhart, and it makes me crazy that despite his book, the US has doubled and tripled down on drone model “math education” that, as he says, is exquisitely well designed to crush any interest in or desire to engage with anything mathematical. If we in the USA taught reproduction as well as we teach math, we’d have a collapsing population that would make Japan’s birth dearth seem like a population explosion.
This is the BEST book on education ever — I’ve read it a couple times now and it just makes me so sad that I didn’t have a teacher like Paul Lockhart, and it makes me crazy that despite his book, the US has doubled and tripled down on drone model “math education” that, as he says, is exquisitely well designed to crush any interest in or desire to engage with anything mathematical. If we in the USA taught reproduction as well as we teach math, we’d have a collapsing population that would make Japan’s birth dearth seem like a population explosion.