Logic: The Missing Link
We need more reason and logic in schools. A dearth of it leads to people having their conceptual thought severed from their perceptual awareness of …
College
Logical Hierarchy Is Essential
We must have solid ground, whether for running, learning, or thinking. If we run off it, we fail.
ReasonRX Podcast Episode 54 Award-winning Teacher Scott Harris on The 3Rs, Reason, and Racism
In this episode, Scott and Michael discuss:-current events and recent public letters to some private high schools-some ideas about racism and attempts to deal with …
ReasonRX Podcast Episode 52 Education, Logic, Language, and Blake’s The Tyger
In this episode, we discuss logic — but couched in writing an essay about William Blake’s poem The Tyger, which I actually helped a student …
ReasonRX Podcast Episode 51 Teacher Training Reform, Teacher Training Essentials
In this episode, we discuss some essentials of teacher training and hence provide a guide to teacher education reform. Education is the systematic training of …
Lost in Math
In Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray, physicist Sabine Hossenfelder documents some bad epistemology that makes some “scientists” go wrong. The book is …
Teach Historically, Teach Inductively
Teach historically. Students need to learn the logic, concept-formation, fallacy identification, induction (i.e., generalization), conceptual integration (i.e., making connections, or “theory building”), and thinking skills …
Feynman On Science
“The job of a scientist is to listen carefully to nature, not to tell nature how to behave.” Dr. Richard Feynam, Nobel Prize winner in …
ReasonRX Podcast Episode 47 Humor Theorist Chris Land on the Nature of Humor and Its Use in Education, Part 1
In this episode, humor theorist Chris Land joins us in a first discussion of what humor is, what you can learn from the art and …
The Value of Sentence Diagramming
Sentence diagramming is a useful tool. In “Eight Benefits of Greek New Testament Sentence Diagramming,” (Sharper Iron, Mar 19 2020), Randy Leedy writes: Sentence diagramming comes into …