Re:How to Calm a Crying Baby Like a Mesopotamian
by pbhjpbhj on Sunday May 05, 2019 @07:15AM
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> Incremental lying and clarification. //
This was the method used to teach me in school. Maybe it worked well but I recall at two stages having conversations like (me) "that's not true" and (teacher) "this is how we have to learn it for now".
Perhaps it would sit better with me if it was explicitly acknowledged that the model was flawed. "We're going to learn about how a ball flies, and bounces; but that's a surprisingly complex thing to make a physics picture of. So, we'll be simplifying it a lot just so we can kick-start our understanding by focussing on some basic concepts that are mathematically easier to model."
This was the method used to teach me in school. Maybe it worked well but I recall at two stages having conversations like (me) "that's not true" and (teacher) "this is how we have to learn it for now".
Perhaps it would sit better with me if it was explicitly acknowledged that the model was flawed. "We're going to learn about how a ball flies, and bounces; but that's a surprisingly complex thing to make a physics picture of. So, we'll be simplifying it a lot just so we can kick-start our understanding by focussing on some basic concepts that are mathematically easier to model."