Turkey's 'Mathematics Village': Changing education one equation at a time
There was an article in a French newspaper that details the real story about education changing in Turkey. The education system has moved from being mostly secular to being extremely orthodox islamic.<p>Newly brought in last year: jihad (and no, not "the peaceful kind"), and removal of evolution. New this year, the how righteous of the punishment of stoning is.<p>The illustration from that article was that several girls one day came home crying, panicked and scared from school. What had happened ? They had been shown a video of the stoning of a woman, and had to endure their teacher defending this as just for 30 minutes. Apparently this is now the new normal in Turkey.<p>Here's some related articles:<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/20/devout-generation-education-turkey-changing" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/20/devout-generat...</a><p><a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/erdogan-turkey-education-news-coup-analysis-curriculum-history-istanbul/" rel="nofollow">https://www.politico.eu/article/erdogan-turkey-education-new...</a>