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RE: Science Is Not The Answer to Everything

in #science8 years ago

Speaking of teaching children.

The way people used to be taught was called the Trivium.
Reading, Logic, Rhetoric.

Reading came first, and was taught by reading the great works.
Then you learned logic and how to reason with the information you had.
Finally, you learned about how to tell your idea to other people.

Today, we teach rhetoric first. We teach children what to think, not how to think. We don't even teach logic until college now.

And we teach in a process that says you will not pass this grade until you give us the answers we expect. And furthermore much of the "science" books we teach children are wrong. The examples were proven wrong long ago, but they are still used.

So, kids are indoctrinated into "science" (as master), not into scientific thinking.

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Exactly. Finland started a new system already with a no subject matter teaching. Let's see how it goes.