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> “I’ve taught public school teachers, who were incredibly bad at formal mathematical reasoning (I know, because I graded their tests), to the point that I had
by EchoAce 7y ago
> “I’ve taught public school teachers, who were incredibly bad at formal mathematical reasoning (I know, because I graded their tests), to the point that I had not realized humans could be that bad at math”
Is it just me or does this come off as incredibly rude? It’s one thing to say people are bad at math but the phrasing of this seems insulting without reason, in my opinion.
- Chlorus 7y agoIt just reeks of the same lazy garbage of that whole "separating the programming goats from the sheep" meme that went around a few years back. "It's not that my pedagogy has faults, people are just inherently bad and there's no point trying to teach them"
- Sniffnoy 7y agoShe doesn't claim that she couldn't teach them. She claimed that they were bad at formal reasoning.
- _bxg1 7y agoI mean, she didn't name names. I don't think there's anything wrong with being blunt if it explicitly directed at individuals.