Ethically Yours

An interesting video claiming that focusing math education on learning statistics would be better than trying to get students into calculus.  TED: Arthur Benjamin

http://scientopia.org/blogs/ethicsandscience/2011/04/06/how-can-you-have-a-university-without-a-philosophy-department/

One of the first books I read when starting my dissertation.  http://www.springerlink.com/content/w856127456076523/

I’m posting quotes I find interesting as I reread the collected dialogues of Plato.    The Defense "I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of, but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite [...]

More Plato quotes I find interesting as I’m rereading the collected dialogues of Plato.   "Why should we pay so much attention to what ‘most people think’?" (29) "I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good. Which would be a [...]