Comment on Why does it feel like most art museums are for adults and most science museums are for kids?
AskewLord@piefed.social 1 day agoTeaching an 8 year old that science research sits at the top of a pyramid and newspapers and TV sitd at the bottom, would be easy to grasp.
you have never been around children, have you?
flabberjabber@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If kid is capable of understanding basic scientific method at 8 years old, they can understand the basic structure of a hierarchy.
“X is more important than Y”
“Why sir”
“Because X uses the scientific method like we discussed in class last week and Y does not”
“What’s the scientific method again sir”
repeats for retention
AskewLord@piefed.social 1 day ago
that’s not how kids work. nor do most people.
flabberjabber@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Okay. I don’t agree with you, but that’s fine. We can disagree.
AskewLord@piefed.social 8 hours ago
I know you don’t agree, because you have no real world experience.
The funny thing about the real world, is it tends to laugh in the face of our expectations about how it ‘should work’.
Try teaching sometime and see how well you do with your ‘just repeat at the children and they will learn’ philosophy…
GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
I mean, there’s a large body of statistical data that says most people do not behave rationally unless absolutely forced to. Children most definitely do not behave rationally unless deeply emotionally engaged. The idea of humans as “rational actors” has about as much evidentiary support as Luminiferous Aether and balancing humours.