What happened in college was during my first course
it was a psychology class and the professor
gave an example in class that
completely changed my realationship with education,
He said if a child is misbehaving in class, let’s say, no,
if a child is misbehaving in a playground, that’s what it was,
you can turn to some-one and say “Johnny is
misbehaving” or you can say in the past hour Johnny
has kicked four kids slapped five and punched three.
And that changed my life,because from then on…
What he did was he explained a notion of empiricism,
it was not necessarily just saying that Johnny was bad but (saying)
describing what you saw and then letting others arrive at their own conclusion
of whether or not that’s bad and how bad that is.
And so for a period after that I would,every conversion I had with some-one I
would always say
“what do you mean?” I wanted them to define exactly what they meant,
but that changed my relationship with learning and education, from then on I
was always looking to define things that were being said, to specify, to
get the empirical essence of what was being discussed, so that little example changed
things for me.
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What happened in college was during my first course it was a psychology class and the professor gave an example in class that completely changed my realationship with education, He said if a child is misbehaving in class, let’s say, no, if a child is misbehaving in a playground, that’s what it was, you can turn to some-one and say “Johnny is misbehaving” or you can say in the past hour Johnny has kicked four kids slapped five and punched three.
And that changed my life,because from then on… What he did was he explained a notion of empiricism, it was not necessarily just saying that Johnny was bad but (saying) describing what you saw and then letting others arrive at their own conclusion of whether or not that’s bad and how bad that is. And so for a period after that I would,every conversion I had with some-one I would always say “what do you mean?” I wanted them to define exactly what they meant, but that changed my relationship with learning and education, from then on I was always looking to define things that were being said, to specify, to get the empirical essence of what was being discussed, so that little example changed things for me.