For those of you who aren't Canadian, Rick Mercer* is a fairly well-known comedian. He's been doing some more serious spots on CBC lately, called "Rick Mercer Reports", and recently visited my campus.
The video is here. It's pretty short and unfortunately misses a lot of the cool stuff (like our nuclear reactor), partly because of Peter George's irrelevant babbling, and partly because of the short length of the spot.
*Okay, he used to be funnier than he is in this video.
**Incidentally, one of the guys in this video was briefly on my supervisory commitee
Well this is kind of neat
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Well this is kind of neat
The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in corrrecting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry—is not even a "subject"—but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.
Neil Postman
(The End of Education)
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge
Isaac Aasimov
Neil Postman
(The End of Education)
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge
Isaac Aasimov
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