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Ron C. de Weijze's picture

making connections

Not everybody enjoys the comforts of having had an education and upbringing that tought him or her the 'scientific method' of learning. Rather, he or she would have it that any spontaneous connection between objects that may or may not have found a stronghold in the mind, would inductively emerge. Learning is viewed this way as a spontaneous build-up of connections, pretty much the same as neuroscience has shown it to work naturally (vs culturally). Favorite connections that are not mediated by spontaneous natural selection/conditioning, must have come from social interactions with peers, parents and teachers/professors. In a way that is injustice, but who cares if that is how science started anyway, when Plato forbade anyone to enter his premises if he did not know about mathematics (ref P.Sloterdijk). However, we are blessed with a passion for justice anyway and should enable those students who will 'wait it out' with the means to do what their brains will do anyway, as all brains do in the beginning (and probably always, but denied by favoritism). Why not, for we have the means as the Internet and Google supercomputing query algorithms prove. Memory is inexhaustible, visualisation is booming from the factories of Steven Spielberg (ref 'Shreck'). Let's leave elitism behind and apart from being politically correct across our borders, care for our own leftbehinds a little more..

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