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8/9/2019 "I will not let school interfere in my education" (Mark Twain); or "yes, I trust I can think for myself!"
+ Critical (self-) introspection on what we know, how we know it, andwhat barriers our prior knowledge may pose on what we do.
+ Self-driven action to avoid cognitive impairment in day-to-day life.
+ Need for systemic changes in organizing education & management?Thanks go to Edgar Garcia, alum of Univ. of Texas at Brownsville (www.utb.edu) and of the Bush School at Texas A&M
Univ. (www.tamu.edu) for reminding me the great Mark Twain quote, to Bill Dunn, Alberta M. Sbragia, Paul Y. Hammond
and Chris Ley of Univ. of Pittsburgh (www.pitt.edu), to my (grand-)parents, and to many others, for opening my eyes.
8/9/2019 "I will not let school interfere in my education" (Mark Twain); or "yes, I trust I can think for myself!"
A Story with top Decision-Makers, HighStakes, and the Original Think Tank
RAND Corporation (US AF Think Tank) wasasked in the 1950s to place optimally US militaryairport in West Berlin to meet some criteria,including fast response in case of early warningthat SU military planes are in the air.
After solving problem, RAND tried to convinceUS government of solution¶s feasibility.
Can we help RAND? Let¶s do it!
³We cannot do that!´ was US government¶sresponse (~170 meetings)
How can we consciously avoid Type III Errors?
³I will not let school interfere in my education´ (Mark Twain)
see McCue, B. ³U-Boats in the Bay of Biscay´ (1990), then write your own answers!
8/9/2019 "I will not let school interfere in my education" (Mark Twain); or "yes, I trust I can think for myself!"
³unknown´ in Apple story--Great [Wo]Men of Science: Rise &³Fall´ of fame
At Royal Scientific Society in London, where Sir IsaacNewton ³started´ and cemented solidly in late 1600s-early1700s his road to timeless unmatched fame, the oncePresident of the Society was ³put on trial´ some twocenturies later in 1919.
Following a presentation by Sir Arthur Eddington onfindings based on the two geographic expeditions
observing the Solar eclipse of 1919, Royal ScientificSociety ³dethrones´ Newton¶s classic universal theory of gravitation and confirms instead Albert Einstein¶s theory of relativity (Waller 2002, 48-63).
In essence, Einstein explained/predicted a higher curvature of space around the Sun than Newton did.
Just the same as in the walking bear story«seeing the
curvature of space allows finding out color of bear.
What are our embedded unseen limitations?
³Finding/tracing implicit limitations on our thinking opens new avenues for
looking at our questions.´
try Paul Diesing, ³How Does Social Science Work?´ (1991)
8/9/2019 "I will not let school interfere in my education" (Mark Twain); or "yes, I trust I can think for myself!"
Newton, not a modest person (Cropper 2001, 18-40),said ³I have stood on the shoulders of giants´
(Galileo, Copernicus, Halley, Kepler etc.)
Newton explained arriving at theory of universalgravitation with ³by thinking of it continuously´.
Consequently, Thomas S. Kuhn writes in 1959 in hisclassic Structure of Scientific Revolutions a verythorough ³generalization´ of the lessons learned fromthe stories of Newton¶s and Einstein¶s work.
Just as it happened previously with the fields of inquiry³established´ by Sir Isaac Newton and (Time Magazine
Man of the XX Century) Albert Einstein, the field of philosophy of science was never the same since Kuhn.
What lessons come from a past rich in process inspiration?
³What factors affect knowledge processes? How do these influence us?´
Thomas S. Kuhn, ³Structure of Scientific Revolutions´ (1959): understand what is an expert?
³unknown´ in Apple story--Great [Wo]Men of Science: Rise &³Fall´ of fame 2
8/9/2019 "I will not let school interfere in my education" (Mark Twain); or "yes, I trust I can think for myself!"
A Story with a Hundred Dollars Bill and ³agesold´ value assessment
Have you read ³The 7 (8) Habits of Highly EffectivePeople´ (Covey, S., 1990, 2006)?
Have you ever ³read´ a 100 $ Bill?(how do you get on a bill?²if feasible--, or similarly famous²yet again,was Franklin famous, or was he simply happy & open with/in all he did?)
Benjamin Franklin¶s Autobiography T. Edison¶s and Henry Ford¶s Biographies Arnold Bennett¶s ³How to live 24h/Day?´
«FREE at
www.gutenberg.org
How can we search/find resources to inspire us?
Ask a child! Absent one handy, there is one inside us!
³Why isn¶t there Barnes and Nobles here?´ (Mica, my daughter, 7 y.o.)
best Adam Smith (1723-1790) ³An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of
Nations´, on value of diamonds and water; Sun Tzu (6th Century B.C.) ³The Art of War´
8/9/2019 "I will not let school interfere in my education" (Mark Twain); or "yes, I trust I can think for myself!"
WHY?Thanks go to Aart Pijl & Loes Bon of Change Company (www.changecompany.nl) for
facilitating ECCI XI (www.eccixi.eu) workshop, to Per Ingemann of FLSmidth for helpasking good questions, and to Stoian Petrescu of PUB (www.pub.ro) for clean drawing.
8/9/2019 "I will not let school interfere in my education" (Mark Twain); or "yes, I trust I can think for myself!"