Fri, 27 March 2009
Dr Rachael Dunlop
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- In my own personal experience, it was Physics class that taught me that things aren't always as they seem and the value of thorough investigation and analysis, and it was Chemistry class that taught me the scientific method.
Both things learnt purely due to the particular teachers, each subject could have been taught without me learning such lessons.
If it wasn't for me voluntarily taking those two elective classes in high school I most likely wouldn't have the slightest idea in either.
This is a HUGE flaw in schooling, two things which should be critical from very early on which were only discovered in the final two years due to elective choices. - The SGU played your ‘open letter to pharmacies’ in full on their latest pod cast, very cool. Hope this takes off and goes fully international.
As you mentioned, just need a way of closing the “ownership” loophole, i.e. who actually ‘owns’ the pharmacy and decides the policy of what items to stock.
- Dr Rachie, brought up an interesting point about, the lack of being taught critical thinking. From my own experience I think the introduction of how the scientific method works (in high school science) was about the totality of it, and you had to extrapolate critical thinking from that. It seems to me that the philosophy was worked out, yet no one thought that its reasoning needed to be taught, i.e. that something as demonstrably reliable as the scientific method needed to be explained.
For myself what cemented it altogether was being introduced to the “logical fallacies”, this (for me) formalised what up until then had been more or less intuitive. Putting it into practice however only came by going into combat on forums. I have a rather simple formula, Dissect the argument; Determine the fallacies; Delver the proof.
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