ABennington Banner Bennington, Vermont Wednesday, February 07, 1962 - Page 4
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The best training in objectivity lies in fields where there is some temptation to subjectivity, just as the best training in clearness of thought lies in those fields where clearness has to be achieved by you and is not waiting for you ready-made. That is the difficulty with mathematics as an educational discipline. I admire at a great distance the skill of the mathematician in manipulating his symbols according to his recondite rules, just as I admire the astonishing gift of young Bobby Fischer for manipulating the men on a chess board. But I confess to some disquiet when I learn how much of this sort of “thinking” can be done, and done more surely and swiftly, by machines.
—Brand Blanshard, Yale professor of philosophy.
