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points by Shorel 4 days ago | 0 comments

Neither.

I optimize for finding the answer to a given question, without knowing beforehand if it will be found online or in an research article or in a book.

And I mean finding the right answer, before you mention "learning" like it is something that can't be done using computers.

[–] 0c3ca83 4 days ago

Learning can certainly be done using computers. But also not as effectively as stepping away from the answer machine to puzzle it out yourself.

[–] Shorel 4 days ago

You are not the only person familiar with Feynman's strategy to approach a new topic.

[–] 0c3ca83 4 days ago

This isn't coming from Feynman. There's decades of research into how education works.

[–] Shorel 3 days ago

Whatever. It's about the method, not about who used it first.

[–] dimator 4 days ago

Except finding the answer to a question has never been what schooling is about. Otherwise we would hand kids a calculator at age 5 and completely skip teaching arithmetic.

[–] Shorel 3 days ago

By the answers I'm getting here, it seems education is all about how to strawman any argument :D