If you can't be wrong in interesting ways, I can almost guarantee you that you can't be right for the right reasons.
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Schooling works by communicating statements of fact linked causally: A, then B, thus C. The same process for History, Math, English, and everything else. None of this helps people think "well, why not D?" None helps people develop a comfort with being wrong in interesting ways.https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/1320094774611804161 …
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@Jonathan_Blow — you can't explain why you're right for the right reasons if you can't also explain why interesting counterarguments are wrong. And you'll inevitably forget all those "details" if you don't have a living, breathing model that can reconstruct them.Show this thread
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Relating to the topic makes it a living breathing model or getting a grasp of. Every kid has different way of relating. They will be wrong to get to know the society conceived right, many times those wrong things are pretty interesting for even adults.
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Math is taught and learned by solving problems which almost always involves asking "well, why not D" and following the thread to its logical conclusion until you've found a D that does not result in a contradiction/error.
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You mean it’s supposed to be
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