NancyLebovitz comments on The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology is soliciting ideas - Less Wrong

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Comment author: twanvl 13 July 2010 05:52:52PM 3 points [-]

An important goal could be to increase rationality in the world. I believe that would do more good in the long term than trying to solve aging. The best way to achieve that through this suggestion box would be an idea that is simple and direct and hard to get wrong.

For the first two points (simple and direct) better education would help. How about improving science classes by including actual science, that is, learning to change your mind and to look at evidence. However, I fear this will be very hard to get right, and hard to get accepted by teachers. Does anyone have other suggestions for improving rationality?

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 13 July 2010 10:56:59PM *  0 points [-]

How about teaching self-experimentation?

This is interesting about creativity and project-oriented education.