> .. to be disdainful of the great social task of education is as stupid as it is wicked. It is the end of progress in knowledge. No society, least of all so intricate and mechanized a society as ours, is safe in the hands of a few clever people. The mathematician [and the hacker] and the plain man each need the other.
#LancelotHogben in #MathematicsForTheMillions talks about the importance of #Notation too. #Zeno #ZenoOfElea #AchillesTurtleParadox

> Fruitful intellectual activity of the cleverest people can never transcend the limitations of the social culture they inherit. When clever people pride themselves on their own isolation we may well wonder if they are very clever at all. To be proud of intellectual isolation from the common life of mankind and to be disdainful of the great social task of education is as stupid as it is wicked..
https://archive.org/details/HogbenMathematicsForTheMillion
#LancelotHogben #MathematicsForTheMillions 1937..1968