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Re: Ideocosmology



Hi!
This is to clarify my last message regarding learning without
understanding and that some subjects "must" be covered (for example in
service courses).
Regarding "understanding", in my opinion this means that the
student gets some feeling on how the subject just learned fith into
the rest of his/hers background knowledge and therefore when and how
it can be applied. Two points to make:
a) Without such "understanding", the knowledge learned is worthless.
b) The degree of understanding depends on the background knowledge
of the student. One cannot "understand" relativistic mechanics without
some knowledge of classical mechanics. Therefore a graduate student
will, in general, understand thermodynamics in a very different way
than an undergraduate one.
Regards Emilio