The Amazing Things & Ideas - On "learning how to learn"
School conflates passing of exams with learning. Emphasis is made on the procedure of teaching (to pass exams), rather than the result of learning. But the product of actual learning is due to interest, and an active recreation of knowledge inside of one’s own mind through the process of conjecture and criticism. It is not a result of absorption or of downloading information into one’s head. It is also not a result of force. Force can impel people to mug up and so be able to answer any question in an exam (among various other things, of course). But broadly, force only hampers the growth of new knowledge. Learning is curiosity-driven and interest led. People naturally want to learn. We do not have to “learn how to learn”. Perhaps the reason why some seek to do so is that they went to an institution called school where they were taught how not to learn. Following your interests is a much more pleasant and natural and creativity inducing way to go about learning and creating new knowledge. The Amazing Things & Ideas List1. What I’m readingA bonus section from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant on education.
2. Clip I’m rewatching“It is said that science will dehumanise people and turn them into numbers. That is false, tragically false…” 3. How can it?How can living under subjection for 18 years possibly be the best ‘preparation for independent, self-governing life’? 4. On the nature of a bureaucracy
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Focus on ideas, not people
Sunday, February 12, 2023
A person is not just a set of ideas.
From relativist to fallibilist
Sunday, February 5, 2023
At one point doesn't everything seem relative? What even is truth if not that which is true relative to the person?
To be wrong is to be free
Sunday, January 29, 2023
Oh, the beauty of being wrong...
Is "Studies show..." the new "The Bible says..."?
Sunday, January 22, 2023
Our knowledge of the world is not certain. People are fallible. We make errors. But this is not a depressing view of us cosmically significant entities.
079 The War Against Nature
Friday, January 20, 2023
Nature (eventually) weeds out bad ideas.
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