The goal of teaching science
E. T. Jaynes gave a speech entitled A Backward Look to the Future in which he looked back on his long career as a physicist and statistician. Here are his thoughts on the goal of teaching science.
But it required a few years before I perceived what a science teacher’s job really is. The goal should be, not to implant in the student’s mind every fact that the teacher knows now; but rather to implant a way of thinking that will enable the student, in the future, to learn in one year what the teacher learned in two years. Only in that way can we continue to advance from one generation to the next.
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