Originally Posted by
mklotz
... snip... For me, the most curious thing about their refusal to learn is the fact that they are so proud of it. Use math to answer a question and immediately a group of the listeners will trumpet how little of math they know, how they flunked math courses, how confused they are by it. I can only imagine that they think their ignorance marks them as more "normal", more like the mob, more ordinary and they want everyone to know they aren't contaminated by all that education stuff.
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