[MD] Food for Thought

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting David M <davidint at blueyonder.co.uk>:

> Hi Platt
> 
> I see. So Einstein invents relativity theory.
> We generally accept it, use it, its a social form/pattern.
> In a way it has become unconscious. You seem to be
> linking intellectual to conscious understanding.
> So if a student is learning the theory and finally
> understands it and gets it, that would be a genuine
> intellectual rather than habitual-social pattern.
> 
> David M

A student learning about Einstein's relativity theory is learning a 
social pattern because the theory is now conventional wisdom.



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