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"Computers have brought about a new literacy," Moses said. "What do people say when an adult can't read? We call him illiterate. What do we call adults who can't do math? Simply adults who can't do math. In 50 years, they will be called illiterate."
Moses spoke of his previous work in the civil rights movement and his work with children as both being "demand-side driven." He said civil rights became an issue in the U.S. only once minorities demanded the country's recognition. And the problems of students' learning will not be addressed...
The goal of Moses' Algebra Project is to excite students to fight for their own education.
"The argument that kids won't learn dissolves as soon as demand is seen, just as the argument that blacks were apathetic disappeared once people saw hundreds of them outside voting centers," Moses said.
Moses' speech began with a quote from his book, but he was not the one to read it. A group of children from the King Open School in Cambridge attended the lecture, and the 12 students were surprised when Moses addressed them directly, and even more unnerved when Moses asked...