" (...) A few months ago, visiting the secondary school in Andalusia, more of a journalist local asked if I was recommended - and therefore pedagogical force teenagers to read. So cold, you always want to answer that is not in favor of forcing anyone to anything, but like me that question and have made many Sometimes, I said enough was enough to make us feel guilty for writers, scholars and teachers of letters. Why nobody asks science teachers if it is good to force a teenager to simplify polynomials, add exponents, solving equations and logarithms decoding? I forced - even, to study numbers were not even real. At first it seems unfair to create a problem of consciousness professor required his students to memorize a sonnet by Garcilaso, while no one calls into question the elements of the periodic table should be stored with their respective symbols, and columns (...) atomic weights for there not in fact a bias against the humanities and a disregard for historical knowledge, literary and philosophical? Why promote the false conviction that the only true intelligence is mathematics?
I have always believed that there is a verbal ability and numerical ability, and there is a musical aptitude and other plastic. Some individuals can simultaneously cherish some of those skills, but not necessarily develop all alike, and is denied to people of all science, drawing, music and humanities. Why is proof of a theorem has to involve more intellectual development a verse translation of Horace? I admit that both operations can be just as beautiful, bright and perfect, although I myself should be a disabled and handicapped numerical mathematics.
whole life cost me pass science subjects in both high school and college, because even in the faculty of letters I got rid of take a math course. But why not ruminate grudges against science and mathematics rather admire famous as Lewis Carroll and Bertrand Russell. Do not propose it constantly Borges games and paradoxes, mathematically?
How wonderful, a writer and to help the children to take square roots, simplifying equations and calculate the acceleration of a mobile that moves on a rough inclined plane (my God! Why over "rough"? .) Years ago I was forced to study all these things and sure my teachers believed they were doing the right thing. So why the writers, scholars and teachers of letters accusing us of practicing "textual harassment" when required to read? Some people are in favor of the exact sciences, but not the accuracy (...)
FERNANDO IWASAKI, ABCD Arts and Letters-No 794-21 de abril de 2007
A mis alumnos y alumnas de 2ยบ Bachillerato A (Ciencias)
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