Comment Re:Chinese Room 2: Simian Boogaloo (Score 1) 87
Don't know, but to most people, math seems to be nothing more than "money see, monkey do". Understanding never comes into it.
Public schooling was never intended to encourage curiosity and deep understanding. People like that would be too difficult to manipulate via advertising, PR, carefully cherry-picked news, and other forms of propaganda. No one in politics or business wants that.