Preventing Da Vincis
Laura points at this rather-painful article about how the education system today is doing everything it can to stomp out the development of creativity and genius.
It reminded me strongly of the Advanced Math teacher at Classical who marked most of my answers on the polar coordinates homework wrong, because I had read a couple of sections ahead in the book and seen that you could write, for example, a 315° angle as a -45° one. But that wasn’t the answer he was looking for, so even though it was perfectly correct, I lost credit.
(Of course, this was the same teacher who gave me the Martin Gardner math puzzle book he saw me reading over and over, so he wasn’t all bad…)
Posted by Garrett on January 27th, 2008 in Education | No Comments
