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.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.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.Here's some related articles:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/20/devout-generat...https://www.politico.eu/article/erdogan-turkey-education-new...