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Was firing an over-reaction?Was firing an over-reaction?Posted Mar 25, 2013 20:24 UTC (Mon) by apoelstra (subscriber, #75205)In reply to: Was firing an over-reaction? by tjc Parent article: Blum: Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost
>, independent thinking is something that is almost completely missing in higher education today. Most liberal arts students...
For what it's worth, this problem is not nearly so bad in mathematics. To keep a place in academia, perhaps you are required to suppress independent thinking... but this is a "choice" in the sense that by the end of your degree you will at least be capable of thinking critically.
ISTM that most math majors leave academia for this reason, though much better off for the experience.
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Was firing an over-reaction? Posted Mar 27, 2013 4:19 UTC (Wed) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link]
> For what it's worth, this problem is not nearly so bad in mathematics.
Part of that is due the nature of mathematics itself -- it is a beautiful thing, a transcendent truth untainted by lesser things. Computer Science is nearly so, but not quite.
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