Great article. Thanks for sharing it.

@RMiddleton
You're welcome! Being someone that was into science and math, then switched to creative writing and art, the 'chasm' between the two sides has always been like standing across what some seemed to think was an enormous canyon while seeing it as a thin little shallow crack already filling with dust even as our old education system frets.

I've been firmly on the creative side & the typical position for me to adopt is to feel incompetent in math & science — & stop trying! There are many concepts that are hard for me to understand even with study, yes. But for me to write off entire fields of human knowledge just doesn't feel right. More & more I come to see that I didn't grasp math & science as it was taught to me. That doesn't mean I can never understand any of it at all, with a new approach.

@RMiddleton
Yes, our education system owns a lot of the blame! Yet art, for instance, has lot in common with both math and science. Painting, for example, is very like experimental method of science: try a brush stroke/color. Did it work out the way you wanted? If not, try others until you get what you're looking for, or discover something unexpected that you like better, or discover you don't know how to do it yet, so you ask another painter that you think might know how to do it.

I agree!
I see it now. I didn't before because of what I was taught, and what most people seem to believe. The way people talk about math and science is A LOT like they talk about art. "Those people are weird geniuses that no one normal could understand-- but we admire them, oh yes!"
It's comical. It's othering. It diminishes human capacity. I enjoy practicing math for fun lately. Seeing "times tables" differently. Really basic relearning. It feels good.