Korzybski posited that we need to develop an educational curriculum that passes through Aristotelian reasoning and then moves people onward to non-Aristotelian and similarly to non-Euclidean and non-Newtonian thinking so that we don’t have adults walking around with the wrong intuitions. Essentially, modernity couldn’t catch up with itself, educationally speaking.
Korzybski posited that we need to develop an educational curriculum that passes through Aristotelian reasoning and then moves people onward to non-Aristotelian and similarly to non-Euclidean and non-Newtonian thinking so that we don’t have adults walking around with the wrong intuitions. Essentially, modernity couldn’t catch up with itself, educationally speaking.
Do you happen to know where he discusses this idea?
https://medium.com/@steven_gibson/science-and-sanity-and-alfred-korzybski-a25ad01e1bad