Like, if you wanted to create the educational equivalent of a rudimentary philosophical zombie — someone who could roughly approximate a person with an understanding of how a physical phenomenon works without actually understanding it — this is how you'd do it...?
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Most things in most school systems are taught in this manner, isn't it Useless rote, learning to the test That's why many people aim to, uh, reform the schoolshttps://twitter.com/mechanicalmonk1/status/1258813376991502337?s=20 …
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W/o using the new word which you have just learned, try to rephrase what you have just learned in your own language...You cannot. So you learned nothing ab science. That may be all right. You may not want to learn something about science right away. You have to learn definitionspic.twitter.com/7KFt2d5zFM
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this is a famous feynman talking point! https://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education …pic.twitter.com/kjKC2tqanR
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Yes. "Names don't constitute knowledge". Great layman explanation in his words here:https://youtu.be/lFIYKmos3-s
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Reminds me of that Feynman story of how his father taught him the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something https://youtu.be/ga_7j72CVlc pic.twitter.com/7h96JxZE3G
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Writing leads civilizations to abstractions.
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The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling
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I got a degree in a top ChemE program without ever having seen any process unit. Not even a heat exchanger. I guarantee if you put me in a refinery, people would die. And yet...
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Good observation
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