> The opposite of scholasticism is just-in-time knowledge. Whatever I need I can look it up. I understand the temptation to think this way but I really disagre

> The opposite of scholasticism is just-in-time knowledge. Whatever I need I can look it up. I understand the temptation to think this way but I really disagree. Scholasticism has serious problems but the solution is not 'just-in-time knowledge'. Scholastacism has been such a successfull approach for physicists exactly because the human mind is simply not equipped to approach much of modern physics. The scholastic traditions are in place to augment and fix our inherent mental deficiencies and prepare us to be able to understand physics. Approaching physics is not a knowledge problem. Its an understanding problem and true understanding takes work, not informaation delivery.