Re: What Went Wrong with New Math?


oðin wrote:
|It always worked
|better to import brains like Einstein, Teller, Gamow, and von Neumann
rather
|than grow them at home if you needed many of them in a hurry.

*If* you needed them in a hurry. How about being ready in
advance?

Here in Colorado we have the odd distinction of having a high
highschool dropout rate (third highest among states in 2001)
and a high fraction of college graduates (second highest fraction
of people over 25 having a batchelor's degree in the 2000
census). It seems we're achieved the magic formula the U.S.
has been looking for: get a "supply" of educated labor in the
cheapest possible way, by leaving as much of the educating
up to others.

Keith Ramsay

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