The Teaching MultiVersity, an obsolete cynical institution, is blinding us to Unified Science
In July 2012, the existence of the Higgs boson & field, theorised in 1964, was confirmed by CERN laboratory physicists.
In February 2011, the ascent of the digital was confirmed when IBM's computer system Watson defeated its human opponents in the game of Jeopardy.
The Blind Men & Elephant: the departmentalized TMV blinds us to the beautiful unity of science
We live in a science-based culture, but we are ignorant & fearful of science.
ProfCircle blames the Teaching MultiVersity (TMV) of this intellectual & moral offence.
(By the TMV he means the university/multiversity in its authoritative role within our education industry, as well as the university's undergraduate programs.)
Science, math & computer languages are largely abstract and we live in an increasingly abstract digital culture.
But the TMV does not enliten us: the TMV fails to communicate & celebrate abstract unified science.
It slices science into departments and then dices these departments' courses into 'higher' & 'lower'.
Its 16th century robes: the TMV doesn't want to change
The TMV mis-educates our children by mis-educating public school teachers, alienating most of them from science.
It discourages women & men from entering the math, physical science & engineering departments.
Traditionally the TMV has produced elite scientists and engineers by 'weeding' out all but the 'smartest'.. by making science 'hard' & jargonized.
The TMV ignores cognitive science's discoveries about how we learn.
Abstract science is beautiful: a view of the Exceptional Lie Group E8
ProfCircle asserts that science, math & computer languages are abstract, not 'hard'.. the challenge for education is to express abstract science in clear simple language. (In large part that clear simple language is de-jargonized math.) When this clarity is achieved, we will see the beautiful unity of science.
This sheet's contents can also be found at www.GoodScience.ca. This website is focused on the expression & communication of abstract science.
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