In school,
There are right answers.
Copying from a reference work with known solutions is forbidden.
Copying from someone else is forbidden.
Asking someone who knows is forbidden.
Working with others is often forbidden.
Testing out the answer against reality is forbidden or impractical.
You are expected to find the right answer by rooting around in your own head.
It would be difficult to find more crippling and maladaptive habits to instill in a mind that wanted to deal with reality.
Testing out the answer against reality is forbidden or impractical.
Not to mention counterproductive. You don’t want right answers, you want ‘Right’ answers. Reality is far too narrow minded to be a good authority-figure-satisfier.
The pendulum seems to swing between the extremes of teaching that there are always right answers or never right answers. It also varies from place to place.
The swing of that pendulum always misses what’s important in the real world—getting a better answer. Or, for some shameless pandering, getting lesswrong.
In school, There are right answers. Copying from a reference work with known solutions is forbidden. Copying from someone else is forbidden. Asking someone who knows is forbidden. Working with others is often forbidden. Testing out the answer against reality is forbidden or impractical. You are expected to find the right answer by rooting around in your own head.
It would be difficult to find more crippling and maladaptive habits to instill in a mind that wanted to deal with reality.
Not to mention counterproductive. You don’t want right answers, you want ‘Right’ answers. Reality is far too narrow minded to be a good authority-figure-satisfier.
There goes my foolishness again. When am I gong to get with the program? I’ll try that last sentence again.
Better?
There’s my preferred brand of cynicism! Much better. ;)
I stand corrected.
The pendulum seems to swing between the extremes of teaching that there are always right answers or never right answers. It also varies from place to place.
The swing of that pendulum always misses what’s important in the real world—getting a better answer. Or, for some shameless pandering, getting lesswrong.