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 …
Philosophy
A Poetic Quote About Independent Thought
Beautiful: Mr. Lincoln was a peculiar man, having a peculiar mind; he was gifted with a peculiarity, namely, a new look-out on nature. Everything had …
ReasonRX Podcast Episode 50 What Logic Is, How We Know It, and Why It’s Important
In this episode, we discuss what logic really is so we can stick to the real, and so we can dismiss the misconceptions and misunderstandings …
Education is For Independent Reasoning
In “Our schools are broken: An interview with director Greg Whiteley about his Sundance doc ‘Most Likely to Succeed’” by Alexandra Heeney (The Standord Daily, 6 …
MLK on Education
Logic should be part of our education. As Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote in his “The Purpose of Education,” published in the Morehouse College newspaper …
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 …
How Pseudo-science Is Made
“How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain” by Lisa Feldman Barrett is straight up Immanuel Kant and his ilk. It is fundamentally …
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 …