Month: January 2020

CH1 L53: Education – part III (Akademia)

January 7, 2020 Leave a Comment

In the last post, we discussed that one of the main problems with teaching concepts is that they’re taught as symbols [1]. We saw that to understand the concept of tragedy, students should read or watch some tragic novels, plays or movies, then find the common element which is a failure. Afterward, their teacher should say that this concept is […]

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My target readers are exactly those whom Einstein and Infeld have described in the preface of “the evolution of physics”: “Whilst writing the book we had long discussions as to the characteristics of our idealized reader and worried a good deal about him. We had him making up for a complete lack of any concrete knowledge of physics and mathematics by quite a great number of virtues. We found him interested in physical and philosophical ideas and we were forced to admire the patience with which he struggled through the less interesting and more difficult passages. He realized that in order to understand any page he must have read the preceding ones carefully. He knew that a scientific book, even though popular, must not be read in the same way as a novel.”

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Month: January 2020

CH1 L53: Education – part III (Akademia)

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