V pt. To wrap up, I’ll leave you with a quote from the renowned Soviet-Russian mathematician Vladimir Arnold:
“American colleagues explained to me that the low level of general culture and school education in their country is a deliberate achievement for economic purposes. The point is that an educated person, having read books, becomes a worse consumer: they buy fewer washing machines and cars and start preferring Mozart or Van Gogh, Shakespeare or theorems. This harms the consumer-driven economy and, above all, the incomes of the masters of life. So they strive to prevent culture and education, which, moreover, make it harder to manipulate a population reduced to an unthinking herd.”
“American colleagues explained to me that the low level of general culture and school education in their country is a deliberate achievement for economic purposes. The point is that an educated person, having read books, becomes a worse consumer: they buy fewer washing machines and cars and start preferring Mozart or Van Gogh, Shakespeare or theorems. This harms the consumer-driven economy and, above all, the incomes of the masters of life. So they strive to prevent culture and education, which, moreover, make it harder to manipulate a population reduced to an unthinking herd.”