Today, the average American has lost the language of Math. This language, which is precise, clean and leaves no room for ambiguity, is truly the speech of an Advanced Race. From it, we may describe our deepest aspirations, the cities and machines from the wellspring of our imagination. With the speech of Math, we may build wonders yet unseen by men or gods or even the very stars in the sky.
Math is the gift of our ancestors. Our forefathers dedicated their lives to perfecting the system which acted like a mirror to the divine, reflecting the processes of the very universe in its eternal dance of creation.
This gift has been stolen. Through our own arrogance and excess, the process by which math is passed on to the next generation has been utterly corrupted, so that the inheritance of our children is a mere imitation of the real thing. A block of cheese, rather than a bar of pure gold.
I imagine a day when the President says enough. When he will stand and say 'The resources of this Great Nation are vast. I am issuing a call to the greatest teachers and mathematicians on earth, to gather them under one roof and develop a new, cutting edge system of teaching. The selection process will be strict, only the most passionate and skilled will be selected. Their progress will be publicly posted, and they will accept imput from the public.'
This new system, once developed, will be implemented nation-wide. All citizens, no matter their age, will be free to attend and learn this new system of math. It is the priority of this administration to repair the damage the public school system has done to the intelligence of the American Citizen, to ensure that once again that we are the smartest people in the world.
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Here's my plan to fix math.
First, we put out 'The Call'. We, The American People, require the Greatest Teachers, Patriots and Mathematicians of the Earth. Should they choose to answer this calling, they will be subjected to rigerous screening. Once all the wanna-be's, frauds and outright bad actors have been removed, the remainder will be put on federal payroll and given food and board for a period of about a year.
Second, we gather these bright individuals in 'The Hall'. This can be anywhere, lets say we use Presidents hall in Kitsap county (a totally arbitrary location selected at random from google maps)
Thirdly, we task these individuals to develop a new system for teaching math. No idea will be considered too outlandish to persue in terms of getting Americans to retain math. While the focus will be on math, a secondary focus will be placed on 'The Science of Advancement', which is the study of how people learn.
Math must no longer be viewed as a ridgid, unmoving thing. The public perception of math must be changed, so that we will view it as the language of ultimate imaginative potential. It must be seen that math allows one to imagine the very heights of religious and artistic expression.
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Holla Forums, I am coming to you because I am putting together a video about this subject. I feel it is vitally important that the damage done to the American Public be repaired. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has strong views on the this, and I desperately want to hear what you all have to say.
Sincerely,
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