Americans are afraid of math.

This is anecdotal, but I think it holds up. Today my math teacher asked why we, as a nation, are weak in math. It seems like our education has not done so well in the area of mathematics, and I'm here to offer my opinion why: I think that we are increasingly afraid of answers. We have let ourselves become so tolerant that we don't think anyone could ever be right, or that anything could really be true.
Think about it. In English things are different. The ability to communicate is stressed, but there is essentially no wrong answer, as long as that answer is well reasoned, defended and expressed. In my math class, we talked briefly about other reasons for American weakness in the subject; negative experiences from childhood, elementary school teachers who prefer English, childhood impatience, etc. Still, maybe this runs deeper. Maybe our weakness in mathematics is a symptom of our desertion of a belief in truth.
Listen to news radio, or politicians, and you may begin to see:
to quote 2 Timothy 3:7
"Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth."