Joseph_Hertzlinger comments on Two More Things to Unlearn from School - Less Wrong

54 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 July 2007 05:45PM

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Comment author: Joseph_Hertzlinger 13 July 2007 03:11:35AM 1 point [-]

One problem with a professor telling students "I may be wrong." is that many of the students will hear that as "You must be right."

Comment author: Bluehawk 14 May 2011 08:24:32AM 2 points [-]

Easily reduced, in theory; educate them about the false dichotomy and other basic fallacies -early-, and have it cost them marks when said basic fallacies punctuate their thinking, the same as any other error.

Of course, it's not so easy to get that implemented in the broader system, in a world where people refuse to be taught how to think. But while we're talking about the "ideal" education...