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In reply to the discussion: Why Would a Math Teacher Punish a Child for Saying 5 x 3 = 15? [View all]liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)math degrees and engineering degrees and have done just fine. This is bullshit dreamed up by for profit companies who want to help train up the next generation of workers, not thinkers. Thinkers are allowed to think in many different ways and come up with many different solutions to life's problems. My son is autistic. One of his greatest gifts is that he thinks outside the box and some companies even hire autistic people with the intention of allowing to think outside the box because those that think inside the box all come up with the same answers and can't always solve life's problems. Engineers for example. My husband was a telecommunication engineer. He came up with many different ways to solve problems for his company. Who will solve society's biggest problems? Problems that seem unsolvable. Problems that seem to have no answer. People who are allowed to think differently are the ones who will solve our unsolvable problems, not people who can parrot back what they have been told to think.
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