Wayne has a good idea here. Having some sort of organization that can vet
educational programming for scientific accuracy and authenticity would help
greatly to increase the quality and educational value of such programming. I
think the core problem is that these organizations like Discovery,
To develop Wayne's response further, I would speculate that many great human
accomplishments are birthed from steady development followed by sudden insight.
Some examples that come to mind are...
Beethoven was said to stay up for days when composing, and supposedly generated
some of his most
a new discussion.)
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Derek Pursell dep1...@yahoo.com wrote:
That's fine Mr. Roper, it is nothing, haha! To continue with the topic at
hand though, the
principles of the person being their own judge on the
matter and being able to explain to someone's self
Mr. Roper makes an excellent point here; the value of establishing that one
should not have an opinion (interpretation: bias?) before studying or gaining
further knowledge of a subject is invaluable to the pursuit of knowledge. This
principle applies for scientific and non-scientific purposes.
Science and religion are indeed compatible,
providing that people do not use the ideas and methodologies of one to override
or undermine the other. An open mind for a different view goes a long way, and
as Aristotle said, It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to
entertain an idea without
To clarify about the language I was using earlier, what I meant by passive
learning was that this is learning where one observes but does not contribute
to others learning (witnessing a lecture), while active learning is something
like giving a presentation or answering questions or in some way
As it pertains to passive vs. active teaching methods, I believe both forms of
teaching are valuable tools. If the objective is to transfer a given amount of
factual information, passive methods of learning seem the better tool. If the
objective is to teach students how to think, how to
A good friend of mine, an older gentleman who has worked as president for an
environmental NGO in the northeast for years, put it to me in a particularly
striking way. He said, and I am paraphrasing, In terms of education, the
reality in America is that a lot of people are going to college who
I agree with David's comment about the dubiousness of using standardized test
scores as a measure of the success of learning. Speaking as an American student
whom has been subjected to standardized tests for most of his academic life,
there are primarily two things that taking these tests teach
Some thoughts of my own, and I will try to stay focused upon the topic:
As someone with a scientific education, I don't think it is particularly
surprising or illogical (I'll explain what I mean by that shortly) that so many
people still reject the theories of evolution and natural selection,
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