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> divorced from what the psychologists are actually saying Let me throw out the possibility that what the psychologists are saying, and the nth-hand version th
by waterhouse 6y ago
> divorced from what the psychologists are actually saying
Let me throw out the possibility that what the psychologists are saying, and the nth-hand version that teachers pick up and teach to the kids, may differ on key details. I don't think it's even rare for high-minded ideas to be garbled by the time they trickle down into classrooms. Feynman had amusing/dismaying stories about what made it into science textbooks, for example (and textbooks are theoretically written by the experts): https://rangevoting.org/FeynTexts.html https://rangevoting.org/FeynTexts.html
- donw 6y agoThat's pretty much where I was going. The psychology and underlaying theory looks sound, and is indeed very aligned with the Stoic approach. Problem is that the classroom implementation ended up almost a full 180 degrees out of phase.