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@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading \\
the individual towards freedom. \\
â [[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/33738-all-religions-arts-and-sciences-are-branches-of-the-same | Albert Einstein, 1937]]
-== On Knowledge and Education ==
+== On Education ==
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." \\
â [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela | Nelson Mandela]]
@@ -57,36 +57,45 @@ creativity and invention that characterizes children before \\
they are deformed by adult society." \\
â [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Piaget | Jean Piaget]], pioneer of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_(philosophy_of_education) | Constructivism]]
-âAt times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason. \\
-When the eclipse of 1919 confirmed my intuition, I was not in the least surprised. \\
-In fact, I would have been astonished had it turned out otherwise. \\
-Imagination is more important than knowledge. \\
-For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. \\
-It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.â \\
-â [[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/01/einstein-imagination/ | Albert Einstein]], 1929
+"I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowledge among the people. \\
+No other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom and happiness... \\
+The tax which will be paid for this purpose is not more than the thousandth part \\
+of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us \\
+if we leave the people in ignorance." \\
+â [[http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/thomas-jefferson/letters-of-thomas-jefferson/jefl47.php | Thomas Jefferson to George Wythe]] (1786)
+
+Constructionism can't scale in school because of the prohibitive nature of narrow curriculum standards and even more narrow assessments. \\
+Since funding to schools is dependent on high scores, the schools will only ever teach to the test. \\
+A radical undoing of the current education system and funding mechanisms must be overhauled in order for constructionism to flourish. \\
+â Mark Barnett
+
+== On Epistemology ==
+
+
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"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." \\
â [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]] \\
"Facts are stubborn things." \\
-â [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams | John Adams]]
+â [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams | John Adams]] \\
"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence." \\
â [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchens%27s_razor | Christopher Hitchens' razor]] \\
"You donât get to say youâve proved something if you havenât explained it. \\
A proof is a social construct. If the community doesnât understand it, \\
you havenât done your job.â \\
-â [[http://projectwordsworth.com/the-paradox-of-the-proof/ | Cathy OâNeil on Mochizuki's impenetrable proof of the ABC conjecture
-
-"I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowledge among the people. \\
-No other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom and happiness... \\
-The tax which will be paid for this purpose is not more than the thousandth part \\
-of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us \\
-if we leave the people in ignorance." \\
-â [[http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/thomas-jefferson/letters-of-thomas-jefferson/jefl47.php | Thomas Jefferson to George Wythe]] (1786)
-
+â [[http://projectwordsworth.com/the-paradox-of-the-proof/ | Cathy OâNeil on Mochizuki's impenetrable proof of the ABC conjecture ]] \\
+âAt times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason. \\
+When the eclipse of 1919 confirmed my intuition, I was not in the least surprised. \\
+In fact, I would have been astonished had it turned out otherwise. \\
+Imagination is more important than knowledge. \\
+For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. \\
+It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.â \\
+â [[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/01/einstein-imagination/ | Albert Einstein]], 1929 \\
== On Living a Good Life ==
+{{Spock.jpg|maxwidth=400}}
+
"Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live." \\
â [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]]
@@ -111,11 +120,5 @@ a reporter wondered aloud if this was disrespectful to the king. Gandhi replied
Looking at a mass of goods for sale: "How many things I have no need for!" \\
â [[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Diogenes_La%C3%ABrtius | Socrates]]' take on Athens' rampant consumerism, circa 400 BC
-Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
- â Marcus Tullius Cicero
-
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-
-1) Thou shalt not excessively annoy others. \\
-2) Thou shalt not be too easily annoyed. \\
-â [[https://www.fidonet.org/policy4.txt | The FidoNet Policy 4.07, 1989]]
+Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. \\
+â Marcus Tullius Cicero