Good
all again. Sorry for this huge amount of time without writing word any but the race I was completely absorbed (or maybe just dealing with a bad organization of agenda).
already completed the first semester of physics (although there is still a test that is approved doubt) I can draw some conclusions about college and how to see the current knowledge.
The first is that if we learn, the university is not the right place. It may be shocking, but I have this idea after seeing how the classes are given as they are focused examinations.
A teacher get in, do a dump of information and leaves. Students nod obeying Newton's first law (inertia) and believe nothing without understanding who really understand. A mathematical proof after another. Principles and statements, formulas, theorems, shortcuts to solve problems, exercises no apparent effect, shaped vanities questions, corrections ... A cluster of words that fall into the bag of nonsense.
do not deny that final knowledge is somewhat larger than the original, but how? We passed by the faculty researchers at the tip of the spear of knowledge of reality. Are they excited to see what they have in their hands? "You see them looking at the beauty of the world now that I know, who understand a little more, you can see what he had not allowed ignorance? No, certainly not. A person who instead of going to the supermarket to do shopping and then prepare a good stew, goes to his office to resolve some calculations to help you resolve a problem. The emotion of love from home to see his family enjoys good food will be similar to the physical he sees as their demands are consistent with what experiments show. Everything as if it were a game where winning the game was just something valuable, but do not know exactly explain why. When the test is to be an important issue, so that when it comes to this is the only moment when silence becomes completely pure, is that something is wrong.
A review, indeed, it matters rather little to show understanding of concepts but rather be able to solve a mathematical problem, as if it was the home of the pastimes of the newspapers. Pass a
is simple, if that's what you want. Just have to solve puzzles, not that it matters the content of words, and for that you just have to practice. Understanding the physics
, appreciate the workings of nature and how it affects our self is hard work that the time devoted to it is proportional to decreasing the exam.
But the university is a wrong way to true knowledge is not equivalent to saying that there is already accessible path to understanding our world. In fact, if anything has taught me this semester, is one I can learn on their own, self-taught method. It is simple, you look at the books recommended in the bibliographies of the subjects that interest us and see which one is the one that has a way of explaining who sympathize with our thinking. We must seek to find the best book on the subject and then study it carefully. This is how you learn really. The issues are important but should not be at the heart because, although they can help us understand better, it may happen that our interest focuses on how to solve the problem and Why not be done well, big mistake for our purposes of real knowledge.
Another major problem is the gap that sits between the various disciplines. I've been to several schools (studying, visiting libraries or just browsing) and note some barrier between the different races. The fragmentation of work leads to more rapid progress at certain times, but it is also true that results in the greatest ignorance of each of its parts, its students and researchers. Should be meetings with all disciplines to share new discoveries, new sensations that reality has and we have been blind to that time.
physics and philosophy are, in my opinion, two very similar knowledge. There is some relationship between them, but very little. Why many physicists do not take into consideration why philosophers and philosophers have no relations with physicists, explorers of reality? What then is love of knowledge?
For when a career that physics, chemistry, biology, philosophy ....? It may be long, but for me, as if it lasts a lifetime. Is there anything really more worthy to man the knowledge in these fields are investigated and, at the same time, poetry of life?
When the incentive to pursue a career will be economic or social, that they will be left to one hundred and eighty which are not now?
When knowledge is something really appreciated by anyone? For when a society where you come across any passerby can explain the chemical process of photosynthesis with the utmost delight?
Never, I fear. Pride, vanity, the survival instinct will push us to betray these words that we now accept. I myself in a few years I can corrupt me enough to see this written as a result of immature idealism.
At least, at least try to act now with the way we create more consistent with our ideas. The time it will take care of treason but never let them do it in our presence.
Compass
PD: At the end I passed everything.
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