Exposing how we traded educational freedom for institutional control, one forgotten historical truth at a time.
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Don’t Memorize Trigonometric Identities. Visualize Them Instead.
Four hours into a quantum mechanics final exam at Rice University, and I couldn’t remember.
Is sin(α + β) = cos(α)cos(β) + sin(α)sin(β)? or is it sin(α)cos(β) + cos(α)sin(β)?
I had memorized the angle sum identities in high school using...
Color the First Book of Euclid. Then Stop.
Three geometry teachers walk into a Greek restaurant for lunch.
It’s not the beginning of a joke. It happened a couple of years ago, when two friends and I began meeting to share our experience teaching Euclid’s Elements. Ben teaches it to...
Geometry Is Useless. Teach It Anyway.
An accountant needs to understand division, but he doesn’t need the long division algorithm because he has a spreadsheet. An engineer needs to understand rates of change, but he rarely sits down to work a calculus problem by hand. And when...
The Reading List Behind Saturday's Article
Saturday I argued that the people closest to a child are the ones qualified to decide what he needs. But most parents and teachers do not know the historical foundations of education well enough to argue with anyone about what is the best w...
The Two People a School Should Trust Most
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K-6 grade: arithmetic. 7th grade: pre-algebra. 8th grade: algebra I. 9th grade: geometry. 10th grade: algebra II. 11th grade: pre-calculus. 12th grade: calculus.
Every school I know of has...
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