On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 3:24 AM, Dominik Granada <[email protected]> wrote: > > Arthur Benjamin says: teach statistics before calculus (check on TED) - cant > paste link now > > Free and democratic schools experience indicates that strong testing and > guidance understood traditionally are at least .... obsolete. > > and btw children in free schools learn calculus when they see the need for > it
I think you may have misunderstood Yoshiki's point in quoting Alan. As I read it, he was not describing a curriculum choice; he was making a point that some powerful ideas don't just emerge, but need to be explicitly introduced. regards. -walter > > cheers DG > > Yoshiki Ohshima <[email protected]> napisał: >> >> On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Caryl Bigenho <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> When I was teaching I had a saying usually attributed to Confucius >>> (carefully hand drawn in calligraphy… no computers available to print it >>> then) and hung above the chalkboard (old technology). It was my motto for >>> teaching: >>> >>> >>> "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." >>> >>> >>> It may have been first said 2500 years ago, but I believe it is still >>> valid >>> today. That is why I do what I do! >> >> >> Invoking proverbs is fun as you can always find the one that argues >> for the other way. >> >> The above one probably was a somewhat liberal translation of what >> Xunzi (荀子) wrot >> e. But >> one other thing Confucius said was: >> "學而不思則罔、思而不學則殆", for which I found an English translation: "If you >> learn without thinking, you cannot understand truly. If you think >> without learning, you will be self-righteous." (I might translate the >> last word to "dangerous", as it is closer to the original meaning.) >> >> Alan Kay often says: Children won't discover calculus on their own. >> >> Doing is important, but in the learning process good checking system >> and guidance is essential. The above quote should be taken as "in >> addition to hearing and seeing, you should do things". >> >> -- >> -- Yoshiki >> ________________________________ >> >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > -- > Wysłane z telefonu. > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
