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Knowing the names of things

Jan 30, 2017 | Category: Featured

Many people have written many thousands of words about the difference between knowledge and understanding, but I think Richard Feynman nails it here: You can know the name of a bird in all the languag...

#Richard Feynman

Some assumptions about scripted lessons

Jan 31, 2016 | Category: Featured

"So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and struc...

#Carl Sagan #Richard Feynman #Direct Insruction #scripts

Cargo cult teaching, cargo cult learning

Dec 10, 2015 | Category: English

…it is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives…Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, Aphorism, 1620 Cargo cults grew up on...

#modelling #Richard Feynman #cargo cults

The closed circle: Why being wrong is so useful

Oct 30, 2015 | Category: psychology

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.Fyodor Dostoevsky A closed circle argument is one where there is no possibility of convincing an opponent that they might be wrong. T...

#Richard Feynman #pseudoscience #falsifiability

#ResearchED - Everything you know about education is wrong

Sep 06, 2014 | Category: Featured

If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong. Charles F. Kettering I realise I must have come as something as a disappointment for all those expecting the curly-headed medical mis...

#Wittgenstein #Carl Weiman #Carl Sagan #Bayes' Theorem #Gerd Gigerenzer #Karl Popper #Richard Feynman