I did not interpret mathwonks message to be anything about young people at all. It was about education taking the wrong direction. As a math teacher I am constantly asked why do we have to learn this...which I no longer answer. I tell them it is to make them think, it does for your brain what...
I have never heard such honesty about our AP idealogy. At my high school, I have heard some teachers complain that the idea of an AP course was to make students think. They are in the minority. It is understood that we are to get the students to pass so we look good. The students are mostly...