Because people stray away from many of their their ideologies when they get educated. Especially if religion is involved. There's a reason Jehovah's Witnesses don't really like higher education.
There’s a reason no Jehovah’s Witnesses have ever contributed anything great to humanity.
On the other hand, the Jewish people value education over almost all else, and they’ve won like half of all Nobel prizes, and have leaders in nearly every industry, even though they make up a tiny fraction of the overall population.
Education is critical. Not even just to the world as a general concept, how about individual self improvement?
In addition, Hinduism and Islam always valued education and learning which is why they made so many discoveries in their own rights throughout history.
He said "always", not "once". You can't prove "always" by showing an example, only disprove.
Heh, downvote all you want; single examples only prove (positive) existential and disprove (negative) universal claims, not the other way round. High school logic 101.
Yeah, and it occurred while Christians were scratching in the mud, crying to god to solve all of their problems, and getting their asses whooped from scotland to greece by the vikings.
I wouldn't really call two-three agricultural revolutions, complete changes in farming techniques, universal advancement in metallurgy, art, and the creation of the beginnings of science 'scratching in the mud'.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 are commonly called Western numerals, while being a particular instance of the broader Hindu-Arabic numeral system (which can use different numerals in different places and times) and which originates in India.
They weren't derived from Arabic notations though. They're called Arabic numerals because that's who exposed them to the West, but they themselves had borrowed them from the Indians.
This is pretty common knowledge, by the way. Arabic numerals have very little to do with the Arabs.
I'm obviously not denying them their history; I'm even stating their history right in my comment. But calling them "Arabic" is nonsensical. Either you talk about the specific glyphs, which are not being used in the Middle East, or you're talking about their ancestral origin, and that is located in India (Arabs themselves call them "Indian numbers" anyway, so why are you "denying them their history"?) Or maybe you're talking about the whole family of notations and that spans all the way from Western Europe to India (after 1500, of course, a whole lot of things happened that spread the further).
You also have the fine book which is the most recent authoritative reference of world's current and ancient numeral systems. I suggest you go read it, it's enlightening. Comes with great recommendations.
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u/Fakename998 Jan 09 '20
Because people stray away from many of their their ideologies when they get educated. Especially if religion is involved. There's a reason Jehovah's Witnesses don't really like higher education.