{"id":28207,"date":"2025-06-02T08:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T06:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/?p=28207"},"modified":"2025-06-02T08:53:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T06:53:32","slug":"if-im-going-to-be-a-youtuber-what-do-i-need-maths-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/en\/if-im-going-to-be-a-youtuber-what-do-i-need-maths-for\/","title":{"rendered":"If I\u2019m going to be a YouTuber, what do I need maths for?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>THE GREAT SCAM. Opinion Section by David Cerd\u00e1<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h1>If I\u2019m going to be a YouTuber, what do I need maths for?<\/h1>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28203\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28203\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28203\" src=\"https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/math-2814174_1280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/math-2814174_1280.jpg 900w, https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/math-2814174_1280-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/math-2814174_1280-768x426.jpg 768w, https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/math-2814174_1280-570x316.jpg 570w, https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/math-2814174_1280-270x150.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28203\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marker_photography. \/ Pixabay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a style=\"display: inline-block;\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/deed.en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license noopener noreferrer\">License Creative Commons <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: 22px!important; margin-left: 3px; vertical-align: text-bottom;\" src=\"https:\/\/mirrors.creativecommons.org\/presskit\/icons\/by.svg?ref=chooser-v1\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: 22px!important; margin-left: 3px; vertical-align: text-bottom;\" src=\"https:\/\/mirrors.creativecommons.org\/presskit\/icons\/nc.svg?ref=chooser-v1\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: 22px!important; margin-left: 3px; vertical-align: text-bottom;\" src=\"https:\/\/mirrors.creativecommons.org\/presskit\/icons\/nd.svg?ref=chooser-v1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11480\" src=\"https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/David-Cerda-oK-cuadrada-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"70\" height=\"70\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mdp-avatar-title\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.davidcerda.es\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Cerd\u00e1<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>The mentality of the slave\u2014studying in order to become employable\u2014produces utilitarian monstrosities, among them the contempt for mathematics, now amplified by a rather silly form of tech worship. And yet, like literature and sensitivity, mathematics must hold a privileged place in the construction of a republican school.<\/h4>\n<p>I once saw a T-shirt with this very slogan emblazoned across it. If I take it seriously enough to write about, it\u2019s because I\u2019ve heard versions of the same phrase repeated more than once.<\/p>\n<p>The root of the disarray lies in the idea that one studies in order to get a job\u2014a servile idea. From there, it logically follows that one studies only as much as is necessary to reach that goal. And once you\u2019ve sold the illusion that <strong>\u201cYouTuber\u201d is a viable job title<\/strong>, it\u2019s hardly surprising that so many young people have set their sights on it. <strong>There are, globally, some sixty-five million content creators on YouTube<\/strong>, of whom it is estimated that just 0.04%\u2014about twenty-five thousand people, worldwide\u2014can actually earn a living from it. In Spain, that probably amounts to just over a thousand. By contrast, there are roughly 850,000 professional drivers, and the country will need another hundred thousand or so by 2030. Just to put things into perspective.<\/p>\n<p>But let\u2019s return to the crude version of the argument, minus the spectacle: what use are maths? Reading comprehension and the humanities have, and rightly so, found plenty of defenders. Mathematics, not so much. Understandably, perhaps: the best pens belong, almost by definition, to the literary camp. We don\u2019t get an Einstein\u2014 \u201cpure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas\u201d\u2014or a du Sautoy\u2014 \u201cmathematics is not just a tool for solving problems, but a way of thinking and seeing the world\u201d\u2014every day. So, let\u2019s be clear: <strong>language and mathematics are the twin pillars on which the entire edifice of thought<\/strong>\u2014and thus of education\u2014rests. We should aim to be highly proficient in both.<\/p>\n<p>To solve complex problems: that is already, whether we realise it or not, the human condition\u2014and a noble one at that. So not just to be a YouTuber, but to do <em>anything<\/em> at all, one needs mathematics, which\u2014as Einstein put it\u2014is simply logic by another name. What matters is not the ability to crank out integrals or calculate surface areas or isolate the value of <em>x<\/em> (AI can do all that now, and better), but the architectural capacity to analyse, to follow the thread of a dilemma, to imagine ways out of the labyrinth, to draft cathedrals\u2014whether physical or mental. What\u2019s at stake, ultimately, is the <strong>production of mental order\u2014<\/strong>an order that benefits not only society at large but above all ourselves. Even emotional order, if you like. And civic order too\u2014especially when it comes time to vote.<\/p>\n<p>People do not \u201cvote badly\u201d simply because they vote for someone other than our preferred candidate. They vote badly because, across the ideological spectrum\u2014including our own side\u2014there are many who struggle to grasp that two plus two equals four.<\/p>\n<p>But let\u2019s go back to the beginning. It is the \u201cwhat\u2019s the use of\u2026\u201d reasoning that must be eradicated. That is what must be avoided at all costs: the logic of the <strong><em>servus<\/em><\/strong>, the slave. And mathematics, as the bedrock of reasoning, is also the foundation of citizenship\u2014and of the republican school, which, as <strong>Condorcet<\/strong> insisted, is not there to train citizens in obedience, but in critical vigilance towards those who govern them.<\/p>\n<p>Condorcet wanted the citizen to submit to laws critically\u2014to love them, yes, but without losing the capacity to judge them. One without the other does not constitute a true civic education. In the end, it\u2019s about knowing how to do the maths, because our liberty\u2014taxes, pensions, the privileges of the elite\u2014depends on our capacity to make numerical sense of the <em>polis<\/em>. <strong>Those who turn their backs on mathematics turn their backs on reality itself<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Now that AI is booming, the same people who couldn\u2019t keep quiet when Excel came along, insist like a dog with a bone. (They\u2019ve been saying the same thing since the calculator, if not the abacus.) This time it\u2019s: <em>why bother learning maths at all?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>These people fall into two categories: those who\u2019ve always hated maths and want others to hate it too, so as to even the score; and those who had the privilege of mastering it, but have no intention of letting the rabble do the same.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMathematics is the queen of the sciences\u201d, said <strong>Gauss<\/strong>\u2014and he knew what he was talking about. To speak of science is to speak of knowledge, and therefore of philosophy. How, for heaven\u2019s sake, are you going to construct a coherent argument or make sense of the world if you can\u2019t handle a simple set of equations?<\/p>\n<p>To educate oneself is to build a mind\u2014and by extension, a heart. That is what education is ultimately about: led no \u2018what\u2019s the point?\u2019 throw us off course.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<strong>educational EVIDENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rights:\u00a0<strong>Creative Commons<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mentality of the slave\u2014studying in order to become employable\u2014produces utilitarian monstrosities, among them the contempt for mathematics, now amplified by a rather silly form of tech worship. 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