I remember when I had to battle to get the reference manual, the spec sheet, the economic numbers... anyway to understand those documents you need good old learning. In a way not good old school learning, but better older mentorship learning.
Before the school, there was mentorship and reading. internet is a library, that with a good mentor you can use. I can use Internet library on my main competence, because I have been prepared, and I can even learn new domain with MOOC, or e-learning... however I remind also when I was a kid, reading alone a book on electricity, encyclopedia on electronics, vacuum tubes and transistors, I was not able to apply the basic math of electronics... yet with my fingers, transistors, led, NE555,capacitor and resistors, I could make funny things... however I was not mastering U=RI out of what my finger were understanding... I imagine that with a mentor, I would have understood much farther... I believe that School, in the classroom passive way, is a parenthesis in history. MOOC can replace the passive part. however we need the "magic" of real professors, the "mentor" relation... We also need the magic of "clubs" (electronic, sport,chess,theater,books and why not math )... the best school I know is kindergarten, and with adults it can work too... not far from learning at work. ;-) so I see a possible future with : Activity school where you discover problems and mentors. MOOC, e-learning, that you use to learn the basics of a domain... Mentor focused clubs or special courses, often supported by a project, when you work on challenging subject, either very complex, or where you are weak and missed key points... chess, electronics, theater, football, or non euclidean geometry. The result is that people will have very different competences and history... at 15 some kids will have played best pieces of Shakespeare, others build a football robot, others passed El capitan, others designed a trading robot on bitcoins, and some managed a lemonade business... not only question of taste, but also of opportunities, availability, randomness... 2013/11/21 Nigel Dyer <l...@thedyers.org.uk> > I have begun to wonder whether the internet can be hindering the > process. There is a feeling that we dont need to learn stuff because it > is all there on the internet. However I wonder whether the creative > process can only really happen when we get the stuff inside our heads so > that our subconcious can get to work on it and combine it together in new > and surprising ways (You can access the internet when you are dreaming, or > at least not yet). That means good old fashioned learning things is still > nedeed as a 'hard-work' precursor to creativity. > > Nigel > > > On 20/11/2013 09:33, Alain Sepeda wrote: > > Interesting article on Science evolution... > It resonate with many things (out of LENR) I've noticed recently... > Mostly Science is dying of conformism... consensus... > It always have bee conformist, killing dissenters, but today this > conformism is getting industrialized, administered, funded, , globalized, > mediatized, with method and rationality. > > > http://backreaction.blogspot.fr/2013/11/does-modern-science-discourage.html#1384868525427 > > the comments are interesting... > > the most funny is that answer: > "Phillip Helbig <http://www.blogger.com/profile/12067585245603436809> > said... > > *"But if it wouldn't work, what all these publications are about?"* > > One can study theology at university, but I don't see this as a proof of > God's existence. > > There is no confirmation of the Pons and Fleischmann result published in a > serious journal. > > Even if your conspiracy theory is true and the establishment boycotts cold > fusion, why not just set up a power company and sell the energy? Because it > doesn't work. > 8:42 AM, November 19, > 2013<http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2013/11/does-modern-science-discourage.html?showComment=1384868525427#c4613352858150026705> > " > > >
