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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...?
“physics” is a set of equations, the most mental thing you could imagine. so much for the mind-body distinction
Assume you’ve seen this clip by Feynmanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFIYKmos3-s …
Sadly, I think many people designing curricula and teaching children don't deeply understand how the physical world works in terms of principles and processes so you get this kind of cargo-cult science. I think it is true in many other disciplines too, teach to mimic the output.
I can remove your uncertainty on that: in my experience grading the physics tests of education majors at unexceptional colleges, only about 1/3rd understand any given concept.
The book "Scienceblind" discusses how young kids reconcile what they're taught about the earth being round / spherical with what they see with their own eyes.pic.twitter.com/IUn2irWpXQ
I often don't agree with your notion but this is so spot-on it hurts.
It's somewhat effective. It's because practice precedes theory. You can develop understanding of what you do later on. It goes much worse the other way around. It is the neglect of the second part that's bad.
Yes. You create the bronze and silver people for the gold people to rule over.
Was thinking about this the other day What knowledge could someone trained like that useful impart if they were taking out of the modern day context back say 100 years? "Ugh water his Hydrogen and Oxygen" - "ugh whats Hydrogen?" "Ugh its a thing like a element ugh you know..."
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