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Weird how much of what's taught formally about physical phenomena is reduced purely to the symbolic layer: e.g. memorize the name of the thing x that does y, memorize the name of phenomenon y, label x on the same vastly oversimplified line drawing you saw in the book.
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...?
It's flashcards all the way down!
Haha, not many people will get this tweet and that’s a shame because it was tremendous.
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 …
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
Writing leads civilizations to abstractions.
The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling
"spaced repetition is an antipattern"
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
Here I am a big live example , computer engineer from a good college but never ever grasped what’s going on, my questions bothered teachers more than their interest to answer me and thus I flunked and got labeled.
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