Groups (Was Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Democracy and ConstitutionalRights)

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Wed Aug 25 12:12:33 PDT 2004


John Kozak wrote:
>
> The results were quite
> conclusive though: none of the students could get to 1+1=2 reliably.

But I bet they could tell the difference (when they were out collecting food) between a tree with a lot of fruit and a tree with only two or three fruits!

Human intellectual skills develop in relationship to their daily activity. One can't teach math in a vacuum.

And, you know, there is no such thing as 1+1=2. There is such a thing as one apple plus one apple (the apples being in front of us) equals two apples, but 1+1=2 is an incredible abstraction that it must have taken someone like Einstein to be the first to recognize it some millenia ago.

Carrol



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