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White privilege bolstered by teaching math
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(10-27-2017, 07:55 PM)Dill Wrote: ... ("Disinterested" science research, for example, begins to take very interesting directions once public funding is replaced by corporate.) Gutierrez also mentions the imbalance in grants slanted towards math and math based subjects; one of those points where private interests powerfully shape publicly funded education. She is a researcher who questions this imbalance--others prefer the imbalance continue on as normal and unremarked. They want her to shut up.

Give me a break.  Plenty of "corruption" that stems from govt funding, as well.  

Math - not the soft sciences - builds cars, roads and bridges.  The soft sciences don't write code, either.  The soft sciences aren't going to cure cancer.  We can go on and on and on.  The economic and quality of life attributable to hard sciences are not just private interests, but public ones.

You honestly believe, for example, that funding on, say, gender studies should be equal to funding for diabetes research?
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RE: White privilege bolstered by teaching math - JustWinBaby - 10-27-2017, 08:25 PM

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