Boston Review: Citizen Philosophers
“Teaching philosophy to students who can hardly read and write [snip] is sad foolishness.” Someone needs to introduce him to the story of Jaime Escalante.
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Stand and Deliver is one of my favorite movies of all time. Back when I was a Calculus teacher, we called it “the math teacher’s Rocky.”
I never met Escalante, but several of his acolytes presented at conferences, and I found them to be very inspiring. At heart, they were saying we were making things too complicated; that believing in the kids and sharing our love for what math can be were the two elements that would make everything work.