To teach science one needs to know the right stories of how science developed. That is one needs a truthful history of science, not the trash history one gets from the West. Strange that all those who talk of teaching students to innovate can only blindly imitate the syllabus from Western universities!
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Colonialism used church propaganda to inculcate the myth of Western superiority among the colonised. It is high time to break this dirty and evil myth, which is still propagated by our schools and universities. Had the British not got Mahatma Gandhi assassinated (through Savarkar), to ensure Nehru’s supremacy, we would have got real…
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The following papers were published in July on my teaching experiments on calculus. (Should have blogged about it long ago.) “Teaching mathematics with a new philosophy”, Part 1: “Formal mathematics as biased metaphysics”, Science and Culture 77(7-8) (2011) pp. 275-80 Part 2: “Calculus without limits” Science and Culture 77(7-8) (2011) pp.…
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This talk announced below was to have been webcast live. Update: The videos were long ago taken down by USM, and my versions do not work any more. The videos are now posted at Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEK1FCrLHjU Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFf5co3G3R8 Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zomZU949Cnw Anyway, the video is now online at…
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Why is math difficult? The new answer is: because post-Crusade Christian theology got mixed with it. So, the way to make math easy is to eliminate the theology in it. Here is an article on it, for the layperson, from The New Strait Times, 24 July 2011 (click an image…
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Here is my paper, talk, for the decolonisation conference. Here is the report in the Sun by its former chief editor, Zainon Ahmad, 1 July (click to enlarge) (or online). Here are also the reactions (click to enlarge).
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There was a conference in Penang on “Decolonising our universities” 27-29 June. A very interesting part of the conference was to share similar experiences of colonial and racist deceit with people from different parts of the world. Another very interesting aspect was the involvement of a number of young student…
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Jay Jolly asked: “Could you expand more on the the concept of “Zeroism”as applied in Mathematics?What changes do you foresee in pedagogy of Mathematics if the philosophy is changed from formalism to zeroism?” First I have a whole chapter on zeroism in my book Cultural Foundations of Mathematics (chp. 8 with…
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Here is my new book (ISBN: 978-983-3046-15-7). Academic imperialism begins with Western education, which has not been seriously challenged in hard sciences. Colonialism changed the system of education to stabilise Western rule through indoctrination. The change was possible (e.g. by Macaulay in India) just because a large section of…
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As modified and posted on H-ASIA, June 25, 2011. Witzel will be remembered for the amusing botch he has made. This sort of thing is an extremely common occurrence among Western scholars whose scholarship is hence unreliable, for they are so often so eager to demonstrate their own superiority by trying to score a point. (Remember that editor…