Oct 28, 2022·edited Nov 16, 2022Liked by Free Black Thought
No comments in a year. Interesting!
To start with I will admit that I am prejudiced. The humanities has too much influence on education. LOL
Also the Laws of Physics do not care about Black people. They do not care about White people. They do not care about anybody. But with this climate change issue everybody should see how they affect everybody. This does bring up education. I had to put up with 9 years of White nuns who made no attempt to teach science. Luckily I stumbled across science fiction. For me it was better than most teachers.
When did you encounter Plato?
Arthur C Clarke used Plato's Allegory of the Cave to explain the infrared perspective of reality in A Fall of Moondust. It was published in 1961. I read it in 7th grade. Now the James Webb Space Telescope is using infrared to detect things that the Hubble space telescope could not see.
Technology that depends on complex physics is a bigger deal than it was in the 1960s. Black Americans place too much emphasis on racism and not enough on science/technology and let education be turned into another financial scam.
Letting schools select books? Really!
Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronic by Stan Gibilisco
Practical Electronics for Inventors
Black Man's Burden & Border, Breed nor Birth by Mack Reynolds (free at gutenberg.org)
Of course Black kids refusing to read is a great help.
No comments in a year. Interesting!
To start with I will admit that I am prejudiced. The humanities has too much influence on education. LOL
Also the Laws of Physics do not care about Black people. They do not care about White people. They do not care about anybody. But with this climate change issue everybody should see how they affect everybody. This does bring up education. I had to put up with 9 years of White nuns who made no attempt to teach science. Luckily I stumbled across science fiction. For me it was better than most teachers.
When did you encounter Plato?
Arthur C Clarke used Plato's Allegory of the Cave to explain the infrared perspective of reality in A Fall of Moondust. It was published in 1961. I read it in 7th grade. Now the James Webb Space Telescope is using infrared to detect things that the Hubble space telescope could not see.
Technology that depends on complex physics is a bigger deal than it was in the 1960s. Black Americans place too much emphasis on racism and not enough on science/technology and let education be turned into another financial scam.
Letting schools select books? Really!
Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronic by Stan Gibilisco
Practical Electronics for Inventors
Black Man's Burden & Border, Breed nor Birth by Mack Reynolds (free at gutenberg.org)
Of course Black kids refusing to read is a great help.