How are we used to learning? - Deepstash

How are we used to learning?

So much of what we believe is based on some authority figure telling us that something is true.

This way of learning applies to schools, where most teachers try to transfer knowledge to us through a mechanical process that doesn't involve reasoning which leads to poor skills in problem-solving-based subjects such as maths, physics, logic...

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iambriccardo

Software engineer by 🌞 and sleepyhead by 🌑. Software architecture. Distributed systems. Personal productivity. Cats.

I have always been against reasoning by analogy and this article explains very clearly why that way of reasoning is fundamentally broken.

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