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.
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Replying to @webdevMason
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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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Replying to @auderdy @mechanicalmonk1
fwiw if I understand you, I think you're 100% wrong here
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Replying to @webdevMason @mechanicalmonk1
Why? I absolutely agree with these (they’re are all Feynman)
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Replying to @auderdy @mechanicalmonk1
I don't see much of a correlation between what you wrote and what you screencapped; distinguishing between symbol and symbolized doesn't imply that symbols are useful without a working understanding of what they reference, however thinly functional
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Replying to @webdevMason @mechanicalmonk1
(How? Also what I wrote was Feynman in the same bit // forgot to put quotes)
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Replying to @auderdy @mechanicalmonk1
I don't care of it's Feynman, as stated it's not a reasonable claim. Maybe context would help.
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Replying to @webdevMason @mechanicalmonk1
Mentioned Feynman re correlation btw screen cap/quote. I do think he’s being a bit tongue&cheek, but also learning vague definitions is setting up buckets/organizing structure to contain knowledge “Knowing the names of things is useful if you want to talk to somebody else.”
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Replying to @auderdy @mechanicalmonk1
"Energy makes the toy move" is just a restatement of the unsolved "x makes the toy move," and it's one that actually makes most people worse off: if they ask a friend "what is energy?" they'll get a less applicable answer than "what makes the toy move?"
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"Symbols are useful" & "symbols are useful even when you don't know what they mean" are two different claims. The latter is sometimes true, but often not, and they risk putting you in a position where you've forgotten what you don't know
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