End the Biggest Educational and Intellectual Blunder in History: A $100,000 Challenge to Our Top Educational LeadersThis book discusses misunderstandings related to the scientific method of creative problem solving and decision-making. The author has conducted extensive research in this field for more than 15 years and shows that the misunderstandings have created great harms in the educational field and in most other fields. This book will be important reading for all those interested in better education, better thinking, and a better society. |
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... Chapter 1 you are asked to be curious and skeptical about your author . I provide my qualifications . I detail how I came to write this book and explain a little about my unsuccessful efforts to get many of our educators to study the ...
... Chapter 1 you are asked to be curious and skeptical about your author . I provide my qualifications . I detail how I came to write this book and explain a little about my unsuccessful efforts to get many of our educators to study the ...
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... realize how institutionalized and politicized the opposition to the scientific method had become . Thus , from 1989 to the end of 2004 I 3 Chapter 1 Be Curious, Be Skeptical about Your Author The Basic Principles of The Scientific Method.
... realize how institutionalized and politicized the opposition to the scientific method had become . Thus , from 1989 to the end of 2004 I 3 Chapter 1 Be Curious, Be Skeptical about Your Author The Basic Principles of The Scientific Method.
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... sand years earlier , if the experimental method [ the sci- entific method ] had been applied to it . It was retarded by non - experimental thinking and by prejudices , and 9 Chapter 2 A Brief History of Problem Solving.
... sand years earlier , if the experimental method [ the sci- entific method ] had been applied to it . It was retarded by non - experimental thinking and by prejudices , and 9 Chapter 2 A Brief History of Problem Solving.
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... Chapter 3 , Dr. Conant called attention to the fact that it was the modern objective of education to teach the scien- tific method . I hunted but found surprisingly little rebuttal or criticism of Dr. Conant's views . Here , however ...
... Chapter 3 , Dr. Conant called attention to the fact that it was the modern objective of education to teach the scien- tific method . I hunted but found surprisingly little rebuttal or criticism of Dr. Conant's views . Here , however ...
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... Chapter 50 , A Few of the People Who Should Have Been Listened to Since the Start of the BLUNDER , I review some of the work of other people who should have been listened to who spoke out after Conant's books were published . Thus , the ...
... Chapter 50 , A Few of the People Who Should Have Been Listened to Since the Start of the BLUNDER , I review some of the work of other people who should have been listened to who spoke out after Conant's books were published . Thus , the ...
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