Rick Archer wrote: > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] > On Behalf Of Duveyoung > Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 11:40 AM > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Irresponsible Advice > > > > It should be noted that anyone with, say, an IQ of 140 or more can pass most > advanced math courses, but it really really really takes a much higher IQ to > achieve anything new in math. So if Hag thought the kid was asking if he > should attempt to be a world class mathematician, then the kid would have to > be so smart that he's already doing college math and would never have asked > the question. If Hag thought the kid had a chance at being an engineer or > chemist or physicist in the practical real world, then the kid should have > been totally encouraged. Math itself will sort them all out. > > But, yuck, Hag giving advice to kids? > > He wasn't giving the advice. He was just relaying the kid's question to > Maharishi. Maharishi was answering. (It was a tape from sometime before MMY > died.) I seem to remember a tape from the 70's but it was on the "new math" which was very controversial at the time. I can't see any Indian disparaging being competent at math. After all it makes getting an HB1 visa more likely. :-D
Of course many Indians these days may be less interested in that visa because before all is said and done the US may wind up in worse shape than India was in .... 15 years ago. As for math there is math and math. One for the left brained like accounting, etc and the kind for the right brained to solve complex problems which require quite an creative mind able to deal with abstractions. The latter may not be good at doing your books however.
