01 Jan
Another Example of how Education can Kill Learning
A Mathematician’s Lament, by Paul Lockhart
I just found out about this essay from Ian Jukes, “A Mathematician’s Lament” by Paul Lockhart. Evidently, the document has been around since 2002 and has circulated on the Internet ever since. The Los Angeles Times called it a “Gorgeous Essay.”
A professor at Stanford University, Keith Devlin, encouraged the author [...]