'Shape' Makes Geometry Entertaining. Really, It Does.
âShapeâ Makes Geometry Entertaining. Really, It Does. Credit.... âGirls canât do Euclid: can they, sir?â âThe Mill on the Flossâ contains one of George Eliotâs sharpest caricatures in the figure of the foul schoolmaster Stelling. About girls, he reassures his young charges: âTheyâve a great deal of superficial cleverness; but they couldnât go far into anything.â Certainly not geometry, that maker of men. Stelling embodied British pedagogy at the time, with all its complacent sexism and emphasis on rote memorization. But as the empha...
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