Freedom of Science

From Dreams of Calculus - Perspectives on Mathematics Education:1
Classical Greek or Latin formed an important part of secondary education only 50 years ago, with motivations similar to those currently used for mathematics: studies in these subjects would help develop logical thinking and problem solving skills. Today, very few students take Greek and Latin with […]

I’ve updated the Introduction to my new post-Newtonian world:
Traditionally, the job of designing new worlds has been the responsibility of Doctors of Philosophy, but modern Doctors of Philosophy, the physicists, have become nothing more than careerist bureaucrats1 and the grandest scheme they can think of is to reconcile the two incompatible parts of the physics […]

Would teachers teach calculus if they had a choice? This is also an ethical question: Why do teachers teach calculus? There are two reasons. 1) To earn their living. 2) They have no choice.
I have never met a teacher of calculus who taught calculus because that was her purpose in life. Teachers have no choice. […]

Students who are judged by teachers to be unable to solve real life problems because they fail to grasp theoretical problems of calculus do pretty well in real life and solve truly complex problems such as relationships, finding a job, balancing check books, getting rich and even passing calculus exams. You don’t need calculus in […]

Some people who never wasted time learning calculus but did pretty well in life:

Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Edison
Bill Gates
Archimedes1
Euclid
Galileo

Some people who flanked life but were good at cramming calculus:

[Any examples?]

 The list is too long to list But the list of people who are forced to cram calculus and then forgot it all is infinite.

See this […]

Calculus is the greatest contributor of average human’s hatred of mathematics. Is this why teachers teach calculus? I sense a blame the victim attitude here.
Teachers victimize the students by enforcing them to memorize thousands and one way to compute tangents. There will be no occasion for the student ever in her life to compute tangents […]