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...Math Wars" [Nov. 27]: I have a novel idea for how to end the controversy over mathematics education. Ever hear of 2+2 = 4, 6x3 = 18? Maybe if we were to go back to the "Stone Age" of teaching arithmetic, then our children would have the basic skills and be able to compete internationally. Instead our children are not becoming literate in math. How many teenage store clerks are capable of making change? There are already math lessons that have been passed down for thousands of years. Why don't we go back to using them? Let's make...
...notions of banking. "Conventional banks look for the rich; we look for the absolutely poor," he said. "All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out." In his Nobel speech, Yunus made clear his belief that access to credit ought to be a basic human right, and advocated the acceptance of "social businesses"-organizations that are self-sustaining but not profit maximizing. "I support globalization ... but it must be the right kind of globalization," he said. "The rule of 'strongest takes all' must be replaced by rules that ensure the poorest have a place...
McCaffrey’s apology demonstrates his ignorance of this basic concept of the value of life. In defending Pinochet, he claims that the tyrant stood for “the principles on which Western nations were founded,” principles based in the free market. This misapprehension is unsurprising, coming from a young conservative, but no less troubling. There are three key foundational principles we respect in this Western nation, so much so that we know them as the “unalienable Rights” of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness...
...have rarely read a published political article where the author seemed to know so little about basic American politics (“The Mirage of the Maverick...
...Ahmadinejad is hardly the first voice in the Middle East to question the basic facts of the Holocaust - even the moderate Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas wrote a Ph.D thesis in the early 1980s in which he claimed that the number of Jews killed by the Nazis was less than 1 million, and that it had been inflated by the Zionist movement to win international sympathy. (Abbas later denied diminishing the Holocaust, which he denounced as "a terrible, unforgivable crime against the Jewish nation, a crime against humanity...