Hi Neil. English prof here. This is literally my job. We teach this in the humanities.
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Kinda tired of you saying people don’t learn things when entire college departments teach these skills.
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Maybe if science valued the humanities more, STEM students would take our course and learn these skills.
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Almost like those electives are useful!
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Public libraries are free. You can read anything you want. Join a book club. Look online for discussions about a book, etc...
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Public libraries are great, but not a replacement for education. Teaching is a skill, pedagogy is a discipline, and autodidactism is HARD.
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Public libraries also don't have the funds for the journal subscriptions. (Which bites. Fund libraries more.)
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When I was an English teacher, this was literally part of my job. It was literally in my curriculum, and I even taught units on propaganda.
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The bigger question, to me, is why doesn’t STEM teach this, too? We do in the humanities every day.
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SING IT. The skills are related, to think critically in a scientific environment is not so very different from doing so in life.
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Isn’t critical analysis a needed skill in science? Aren’t engineers, mathematicians, all scientists supposed to be skeptics?
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Yes! Exactly.
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By “we” you mean astrophysicists, right? Because there are these disciplines called “social sciences,” and *we* don’t have this blind spot.
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Ditto for the humanities.
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In school, rarely do we learn the difference between healthy skepticism and irrational denial.
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Critical thinking. Socratic seminars. Is it provable, has it been debunked. You have, you simply haven't made the connections on how to yet
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Not all schools teach the Socratic method. Sure, they might incorporate or use it to some degree, but they don’t teach it.
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Something to help get into more schools then.
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Hey,
@neiltyson, I'm a huge fan of your work and I hope you'll address these rape claims to clear your name. Thanks!http://www.patheos.com/blogs/nosacredcows/2017/10/neil-degrasse-tyson-accused-of-rape/ … -
Skepticism is incredibly important, which is why I don't want anyone to rush to judgment here, but these claims need to be addressed anyway.
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Serious allegations like this deserve to be addressed, especially with the sensationalism of this issue at the moment—so please let us know.
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