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David Chapman
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David Chapman

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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 4 Feb 2019
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    ✚ I’m actually not sure what I think about this, six years later. It’s true in some sense, but I also want to on-the-other-hand it, especially because the sentiment seems much more widespread now than it was then. Some knowledge is enduring. You can learn some of it in school.pic.twitter.com/Yx3rbbYQcN

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      2. Rob MacLachlan‏ @robamacl 5 Feb 2019
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        Like all other cultural forms, "school" evolved rather than being purely intentionally designed. This means that things may "work" for obscure reasons. As in biologic evolution, this is clearest in historical vestiges.

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      3. Rob MacLachlan‏ @robamacl 5 Feb 2019
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        #2 son was complaining about how he was overdosing on "significant figures" (rounding, etc.) In his several science classes. I don't think working scientists use sig figs much anymore. AFAICT it was mostly about making paper computation easier, but rolled into this

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      2. Stephen Pimentel‏ @StephenPiment 4 Feb 2019
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        I agree with your ambiguity. On the one hand, our approaches to education are artificial and socially constructed and therefore always subject to a certain relativity. Moreover, our present education systems are bad in more specific, concrete ways.

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      3. Stephen Pimentel‏ @StephenPiment 4 Feb 2019
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        On the other hand, this is true of all education everywhere — indeed of culture itself. And if the suggested implication is "therefore get rid of it," I can only consider this a cure vastly worse than the disease.

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      1. ⰘⰑⰍⰀⰋ ⰔⰑⰁⰑⰎ‏ @hokaisobol 5 Feb 2019
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        Panicked for a moment thinking I wrote that, but relieved to see blame goes to Doris Lessing, who had a rich Persian, African and European experience to inform her views. "We are sorry, but it is the best we can do" rings very true.

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