[MD] Food for Thought

[David M]

Hi Platt

I am talking about the fact that you cannot
actually teach a student to understand any theory,
you can only lead them up to it, get them to examine
it, etc. There has to be a point of 'getting it' the ah-ha
moment, where you make the same discovery 
by yourself that Einstein once made, otherwise
you have never truly understood it.

David M

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Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 12:17 AM
Subject: Re: [MD] Food for Thought


> 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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