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He's saying that the Western education system teaches people to memorize facts such as the roundness of the Earth without teaching process methodology to derive
by pvg 5y ago
He's saying that the Western education system teaches people to memorize facts such as the roundness of the Earth without teaching process methodology to derive the roundness of the Earth.
That's also a claim without much in the way of evidence and plenty of evidence against. The whole rather slight piece is based on this unexamined idea.
- jjoonathan 5y agoYeah, I certainly remember the Eratosthenes shadow experiment making an appearance. That, and plenty of space footage, because space footage is awesome.