Two conflicting notions of learning. In science and engineering, the purpose of learning is generalization from past observations to future ones. Learning is stereotyping. In education, the purpose of learning is forming the mind of the student. Learning is indoctrination.
No seriously, the idea of education is imprinting the next generation with the current edition of the dominant mind virus. This is how our species has operated for hundreds of years. Without that, we‘d probably still live in agrarian societies with a global population of 300M.
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