Paul Ernest of Exeter University in England has published a new book called The Philosophy of Mathematics Education Today where he says learning math can cause "collateral damage" to society.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/...ety-professor/
According to Ernest, this “collateral damage” happens in three ways. First, he argues, the styles of thinking involved with mathematics are “detached” and “calculated” ones, which value “rules, abstraction, objectification, impersonality, unfeelingness, dispassionate reason, and analysis” — which he claims “can be damaging when applied beyond mathematics to social and human issues.”
The second problem, he explains, is that “the applications of mathematics in society can be deleterious to our humanity unless very carefully monitored and checked.”
“Money and thus mathematics is the tool for the distribution of wealth,” he writes. “It can therefore be argued that as the key underpinning conceptual tool mathematics is implicated in the global disparities in wealth.”
Finally, Ernest claims, “the personal impact of learning mathematics on learners’ thinking and life chances can be negative for a minority of less successful students, as well as potentially harmful for successful students.” Ernest continues to explain that math is often viewed as “masculine,” and that that can essentially make it difficult for women to deal with learning it.
There you have it folks, math is the source of bigotry, poverty, and a lack of humanity. It obvious impedes with feelings.
I have a real urge now to dig up my big old TI scientific calculator from the 70's and bitch slap Ernest with it.
I also have good idea where I should ram my dad's old slide rule too.
Math is dangerous
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