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Re: Ideocosmology

Hi, Rick!
You hit the nail on the head! While covering just a part of the
syllabus in order to understand something may be worth little,
covering everything but without understanding is worth nothing!
One of the impediments to understanding is, in my opinion, those
encyclopedic textbooks which students do not have the time to
read. The "intelligent" way to read a scientific book is to read
for one minute and then think about 10 minutes about what you read
(construct possible examples, compare with previous sections etc.)
Greetings! Emilio

Just because the text is encyclopedic, does that mean we have to teach that
way?

Just wondering...

Dewey

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"Physical concepts are the free creations of the human mind and
are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external
world."--A. Einstein in The Evolution of Physics with L. Infeld,
1938.
"Every [person's] world picture is and always remains a construct
of [their] mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence."
--E. Schrodinger in Mind and Matter, 1958.
"Don't mistake your watermelon for the universe." --K. Amdahl in
There Are No Electrons, 1991.
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