02 SEP 2016 by ideonexus
Maintain Positive Memories and Knowledge
Other ways to celebrate and maintain positive memories and knowledge include the following:
Have students teach the new skill to someone else.
Have students keep a list of achievements in their math journals or write them on a wall chart.
Take a photo of the fi nal achievement (even if it is something as simple as a well-solved math problem).
Have students compose a note to their parents, and add your own comments.
Provide opportunities for students to transfer the new skills to new situatio... 1 
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Descartes Rules
I thought the following four [rules] would be enough, provided that I made a firm and constant resolution not to fail even once in the observance of them.
The first was never to accept anything as true if I had not evident knowledge of its being so; that is, carefully to avoid precipitancy and prejudice, and to embrace in my judgment only what presented itself to my mind SO cleariy and distinctly that I had no occasion to doubt it. The second, to divide each problem I examined into as many ... 1 notes
notesThe basis for empiricism, even if he abandons them in his own arguments.
08 NOV 2013 by ideonexus
The Technocracy
The basis of modern industry being scientific knowledge of nature's laws whereby nature's resources are made available for human use and enjoyment through the aid and agency of technical skill, "Reconstruction" becomes essentially a process of selective rejection of present inappropriate economic usages; discarding customs which unduly facilitate the acquisitive instincts, and substituting others which tend to minimize social obstacles to the freer expression of the constructive or industrial... 1 notes
notesFirst definition.
09 JAN 2013 by ideonexus
Humanism is Grounded in Empirical Reality
We base our understanding of the world on what we can perceive with our senses and comprehend with our minds. Anything that is said to make sense should make sense to us as humans; else there is no reason for it to be the basis of our decisions and actions. Supposed transcendent knowledge or intuitions that are said to reach beyond human comprehension cannot instruct us because we cannot relate concretely to them. The way in which humans accept supposed transcendent or religious knowledge is ...Folksonomies: humanism empiricism
Folksonomies: humanism empiricism
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notesRevealed knowledge serves no purpose because it is not shared by everyone.
18 JUN 2012 by ideonexus
Imagination and Knowledge
The scientist, if he is to be more than a plodding gatherer of bits of information, needs to exercise an active imagination. The scientists of the past whom we now recognize as great are those who were gifted with transcendental imaginative powers, and the part played by the imaginative faculty of his daily life is as least as important for the scientist as it is for the worker in any other field—much more important than for most. A good scientist thinks logically and accurately when condit... 1 notes
notesThe scientist needs to have imagination, and a great deal of facts to play with.
08 JUN 2012 by ideonexus
The Formation of Grains of Sand
On the basis of the results recorded in this review, it can be claimed that the average sand grain has taken many hundreds of millions of years to lose 10 per cent. of its weight by abrasion and become subangular. It is a platitude to point to the slowness of geological processes. But much depends on the way things are put. For it can also be said that a sand grain travelling on the bottom of a river loses 10 million molecules each time it rolls over on its side and that representation impres...
1 Miraculous in numbers.
06 JUN 2012 by ideonexus
Basis of Civilization
It has been said that he who was the first to abuse his fellow-man instead of knocking out his brains without a word, laid thereby the basis of civilisation. Folksonomies: civilization
Folksonomies: civilization
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notesIs abusing one another with words instead of killing one another?
30 MAY 2012 by ideonexus
Taxonomy is About Connecting and Explaining Life
Taxonomy (the science of classification) is often undervalued as a glorified form of filing—with each species in its folder, like a stamp in its prescribed place in an album; but taxonomy is a fundamental and dynamic science, dedicated to exploring the causes of relationships and similarities among organisms. Classifications are theories about the basis of natural order, not dull catalogues compiled only to avoid chaos. 1 notes
notesNot just categorizing it.
29 MAY 2012 by ideonexus
Nature Works in Increments
Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap. For example she could not produce a horse if it were not preceded by all the other animals on which she ascends to the horse's structure as if on the rungs of a ladder. Thus every one thing exists for the sake of all things and all for the sake of one; for the one is of course the all as well. Nature, despite her seeming diversity, is always a unity, a whole; and thus, when she manifests herself in a...All living things rely on the chain of all other living things before them.
07 MAR 2012 by ideonexus
We See the Momentary End-Point of the State of the Earth
In the course of the history of the earth innumerable events have occurred one after another, causing changes of states, all with certain lasting consequences. This is the basis of our developmental law, which, in a nutshell, claims that the diversity of phenomena is a necessary consequence of the accumulation of the results of all individual occurrences happening one after another... The current state of the earth, thus, constitutes the as yet most diverse final result, which of course repre...Folksonomies: causation
Folksonomies: causation
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notesWhat we see on our planet is the result of a several-billion-year accumulation of events.
