I think it’s probably a good idea to remember that ‘teaching material efficiently’ and ‘teaching people how to think and discover’ are different things and potentially separable. Is there a way we could teach skills in an efficient manner and then separately teach the process of discovering and thinking? Perhaps. In fact schools already attempt this sometimes; just not very effectively. Certain kinds of labs are designed to try to do something like this. Perhaps there are better methods for teaching discovery and uncertainty skills. One obvious improvement would be to emphasize that most of reality looks much more like the discovery process than the efficient learning process.
I think it’s probably a good idea to remember that ‘teaching material efficiently’ and ‘teaching people how to think and discover’ are different things and potentially separable. Is there a way we could teach skills in an efficient manner and then separately teach the process of discovering and thinking? Perhaps. In fact schools already attempt this sometimes; just not very effectively. Certain kinds of labs are designed to try to do something like this. Perhaps there are better methods for teaching discovery and uncertainty skills. One obvious improvement would be to emphasize that most of reality looks much more like the discovery process than the efficient learning process.
Agreed.