May 25, 2023·edited May 25, 2023Liked by The Reason We Learn
One thing I have found curious about on line complaints about "education" is so little mention of CURIOSITY. Like kids cannot be self motivated if presented with the right material.
Another is the near total absence of mention of Project Gutenberg. I asked about half a dozen teachers at a high school about it and only one had heard of it.
The nuns never taught science at the grammar school my mother sent me to. I taught myself a bunch of science because of science fiction. The fiction told me what words and ideas to research.
In A Fall of Moondust, Arthur C Clarke used Plato's Allegory of the Cave to explain infrared perception compared to our normal perspective via visible light.
There is lots of old sci-fi in Project Gutenberg now:
Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper
The Servant Problem by Robert F. Young
Black Man's Burden & Border, Breed nor Birth by Mack Reynolds
One thing I have found curious about on line complaints about "education" is so little mention of CURIOSITY. Like kids cannot be self motivated if presented with the right material.
Another is the near total absence of mention of Project Gutenberg. I asked about half a dozen teachers at a high school about it and only one had heard of it.
The nuns never taught science at the grammar school my mother sent me to. I taught myself a bunch of science because of science fiction. The fiction told me what words and ideas to research.
In A Fall of Moondust, Arthur C Clarke used Plato's Allegory of the Cave to explain infrared perception compared to our normal perspective via visible light.
There is lots of old sci-fi in Project Gutenberg now:
Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper
The Servant Problem by Robert F. Young
Black Man's Burden & Border, Breed nor Birth by Mack Reynolds
Omnilingual by H Beam Piper
Deathworld by Harry Harrison
The Status Civilization by Robert Sheckley