Nick_A wrote:There is human education and scientific education. The cosmic man refers to the results of a human education – a higher more inclusive quality of consciousness as opposed to the normal cave perspective that governs our lives. Inclusive consciousness reveals the big picture. Secular consciousness supports the small picture or cave life. Physics as is normally thought is just computer knowledge. It doesn't require a human education. It just requires the means to prove facts. ...
What are you talking about? Theoretical Physics requires one to think about the big pictures, applied Physics requires one to apply it to the world, essentially to talk to the Engineers.
Einstein said precisely that it was a scientific and an arts education that will produce his 'Cosmic Man' and bugger all to do with this 'inclusive consciousness' whatever the hell that is.
When are you going to come clean and tell us what it is you actually propose to teach to our young?
When science and in this case physics, serves the cosmic man or the big picture it is of service to man. When used by cave consciousness it is a mixed blessing. Man just as easily serves the results of physics including more efficient methods of killing.
So you are saying that Einstein was a caveman when he theorised about the big picture and came up with the atomic bomb?
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Einstein had a natural inclination to the big picture that appears through intuition and for him it led analysis. ...
Except that he had to be taught first about what the picture was and the issues it involved.
What sense is it to write of curriculum if you deny the value of developing intuition and what is necessary to inspire it in the young? ...
Because you want my taxes to pay for it. And what matter that you imagine what I think, tell us what it is you will be teaching the young? As so far all you do is whinge and it's not exactly the mark of one who can walk his talk.
You and Belinda would prefer just to kill the natural impulse of objective intuition because it is “religious.” ...
No, I just want to know what you mean by 'objective intuition', how you will be teaching it and what will be the content, methodology and pedagogy?
As I’ve said so many times, this is spirit killing and the attempt to create metaphysical repression in the young to further a secular agenda. Real child abuse.
Get a grip, real child abuse is horrifyingly around us all the time and I see no sign that it is not being done by those who proclaim a metaphysical intuition about existence.
What is it you are actually going to teach if you get your way?