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Yes, but they often don't. We usually think of good teachers as people who give clear explanations and keep the students interested. Attacking student misconcep
by capnrefsmmat 14y ago
Yes, but they often don't. We usually think of good teachers as people who give clear explanations and keep the students interested. Attacking student misconceptions tends to confuse them, even if it improves their understanding in the end, so people are reluctant to do it.
- icelancer 14y agoFunny. We call that process the "scientific method," yet it is hardly applied when it comes to actually learning anything. It should be a student's goal to strike out and fail, to discover that he does not know things about the world. But this isn't the environment that is fostered in classrooms - it is compliance and memorization that is taught.