Pouring knowledge into people's heads
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I wonder if "pouring knowledge" has a negative meaning here? I'm not quite sure what it means...
Rather than pouring knowledge into people's heads and declaring them to be educated for having done so somewhere in there. We need to train people how to think, how to analyze, how to interpret, how to be skeptical of information, and then how to recognize when sufficient data has been put forth to turn something that you might be skeptical about into something that is a newly established objective truth that is not taught in the schools.
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anonymous I wonder if "pouring knowledge" has a negative meaning here? Yes. He compares the usual education students get to filling their skulls from a pitcher full of knowledge—no thinking involved.
- anonymous I wonder if "pouring knowledge" has a negative meaning here?
- Yes.
- He compares the usual education students get to filling their skulls from a pitcher full of knowledge—no thinking involved.
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anonymousI wonder if "pouring knowledge" has a negative meaning here?
Yes. He compares the usual education students get to filling their skulls from a pitcher full of knowledge—no thinking involved.
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