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You can break reading, writing, math, and code all down to the simple act of logical reasoning. Reading is a man made system of information conveyance. To mast
by zanny 9y ago
You can break reading, writing, math, and code all down to the simple act of logical reasoning.
Reading is a man made system of information conveyance. To master reading, you master the rules of it, while understanding the intent and purpose. Writing is the same - a man made system of information conveyance, except for creation rather than consumption. It has rules, and you need to understand intent and purpose to master it.
Math is the patternized structural implementation system of the universe. Again, to master math, you learn the rules, and understand the intent and purpose.
Code is a man made system of information conveyance meant to implement math for practical applications. You need to learn the rules and understand the intent.
All of your examples just demonstrate that fundamentally, education starts and ends with the ability of someone to understand a system - to interpret it rules, understand its intent, and use that knowledge for purpose to apply the rules with intent.
That fundamental abstraction is horrifying, because it becomes so obvious that these stills are never acquired. I'd postulate a majority of public school graduates in the US cannot use structured logic to adopt new ideas and structural systems in a consistent way, which belays the fundamentals of what education is meant to accomplish.
More punctual orators call this "learning to learn". It is a lacking subject in almost all educations, something you are meant to hopefully acquire on your own, but the absence of which is worse than any other failure of development. Living without critical thinking is akin to a failure to thrive.
- sametmax 9y agoYou can't teach somebody to learn in a generic manner. However, you can teach even several subjects that will be useful everday that approach a range of ways to learn, building the foundation required for the person to "learn to learn" by him or herself. This is what we are supposed to do. This is not, however, what we do in school. School is now doing : - baby sitting - killing creativity and autonomy - blending all kids into on uniform bowl - giving them examples on how to avoid admiting your are wrong, using fear, cheating, power abuse, bad food, fact distorsion, memorizing and forgetting... - ranking kids against each others according to arbitrary yet not objective metrics - teaching kids to pass, and fit a disfonctional system, at all cost, or be ashamed I have been a student to 11 schools due to my father moving a lot for his work, from the worst in the hood to the best private ones. None of them prepared me for my life. Most of the kids that went in there came out without required basic skills, and yet passed. The most expensive ones are the less evil, so money is an issue.
- cat199 9y ago> You can't teach somebody to learn in a generic manner. Nonsense. However, the fact that this is often considered a valid view shows how little philosophy/ethics are part of common education.. Once someone realizes it is their duty to learn, and that learning is a virtue that is rewarding on its own and brings benefit to themselves and others, the 'skill' is rapidly acquired.