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Post by MaxEntropy_Man Sun Mar 29, 2015 11:02 am

so long as you believe you are good at math.

Despite ranking 27th and 30th in math, respectively, American and Israeli students came out at the top in their belief in their math abilities, if one tallies up their responses to survey questions about their skills. Sweden came in seventh, even though its math ranking was 28th.

Thirty years ago, William Bennett, the Reagan-era secretary of education, noticed this disparity between achievement and confidence and quipped, “This country is a lot better at teaching self-esteem than it is at teaching math.” It’s a funny line, but there is actually something powerful in the plucky confidence of American, Swedish and Israeli students.
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Post by MaxEntropy_Man Sun Mar 29, 2015 11:21 am

i am trivializing of course. i liked the article and agree with most of its conclusions. i haven't paid much attention to him after the plagiarism scandal. hope this article is his own.
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Post by Marathadi-Saamiyaar Sun Mar 29, 2015 3:02 pm


A little more emphasis on STEM was long overdue in US but not at the expense of Gen Ed. India is a good example for STEM w/o GenEd. no original thinking, cross-disciplinary approach, or out of the box approach.

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