---- Original message ---- > my desire to let students know that not everyone > embraces the scientific method as their preferred > way of knowing. ------------------------------------------------
While it may be true that not everyone embraces the scientific method as their preferred way of knowing, with students (who for the most part are not yet scientific thinkers) I swing the pendulum the other way, just hoping to move my students just a teensy weensy teeny tiny bit (that's scientific jargon for not much) in the direction of scientific thinking. I avoid letting them know that educated people take off their thinking caps and let something else rule their lives. Why? Because I firmly whole-heartedly 100% am a true believer that anything other than scientific thinking leads to greater error--error in decision making at important times in life when we sometimes have to act too quickly to fully think things through then it's much better to do so scientifically and criticaly. At this point in time I am unlikely to change my thinking, am emotionally wedded to it, and refuse to give up my prior preconception about the importance of thinking this way; hence call myself a true believer. Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 619-260-4006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
