Math Makeover 1998
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I got on the agenda at AFSC tonight -- showed up with Tara, my 3 year old, and a friend.
Turns out my clever Chomsky analogy (more suitable for the left leaning I thought -- I'm using Reagan Medal of Freedom winner in my meetings with those slanting right) went over the heads of these high schoolers. I guess Chomsky isn't much read in classrooms around here.[1] Still, they got my point about how a first line of defense against uncomfortable ideas is to brand the source "crackpot" -- but how that doesn't work when the source is culturally certified brilliant, as is true in the Chomsky case (a tenured MIT professor -- they'd all heard of MIT). |
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NOTES: [1] I had a copy of his Deterring
Democracy in my brief case -- picture of a stealth bomber
on the cover. [2] Co-clerk, Latin America Asia Pacific committee formerly Contributing Editor, Asian-Pacific Issues News [defunct publication -- KU] [3] Wired, November, 1997 |