Galileo: Rejecting Plato
Platonists suffered from a bad epistemology and metaphysics, so they believed that ideas they made up in their heads were true regardless of what experience …
Philosophy
Education and Reasoning Are About Cognitive Connections: Total Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Thinking
As for what a mind does and what education is about, we might consider: “[Marva Collins] insisted on frequent reading and writing, through which children …
The Purpose of Education
A test video that was too good to delete. I was trying out Apple’s Photo Booth for recording videos to see if I could get …
ReasonRX Podcast Episode 62 Grammar: Who Needs It? Who Cares? — Those Who Think.
Listen to the episode on Spreaker or on one of many, many podcast apps, or (free) on Audible, Amazon, or YouTube.
An Open Response To an Outschool “Policy Violation” For Alleged Substandard Teaching
In an email entitled “Teacher Feedback – Policy Violation” (screen shots below), received at 10:20 PM CST on 18 Aug 2022, they said: “The Outschool …
A Public Response to a Public Review
In a review of “Summer Algebra 2 Review/Preview, Session 1” (Mon Jul 25 – Aug 5 at 4:30pm Central, 2022), to go with her 2/5 …
Be True, or Be Unwell
We go to narrow and do “cause I feel like it” stuff only at our own peril. (And yes, there is a causal link between …
Feynman: How To Explain and To Not Explain
First, an introduction to the article I will excerpt: “In 1964 the eminent physicist Richard Feynman served on the State of California’s Curriculum Commission and …
Movement For Cognition
As John Ratey says in his book Spark, movement makes us smarter. Our brains and minds need it for optimal function. Even better — get …