Lods, there is something intuitive about some of the old ways and old knowledge.
When I was studying Astrophysics I found turn of the century books invaluable, that is 1900s not 2000s, they described the universe in the language and knowledge base of the time, and in some cases these simpler descriptions greatly assisted understanding even if they were obsolete.
Last week I was trying to explain some logarithmic and derivative concepts to associates, the irrelevance of minutia and the importance of scale. Modern PCs and Calcs are not really of much help, they just deliver ever expanding number of digits which as we know from science and engineering will be largely irrelevant. So bizarrely, I brought a slide rule into work and they immediately understood that orders of magnitude relative to fractional errors. There is something very intuitive about the old ways.
I read a while back that there is new education research that suggests students will get better outcomes through a return to books, pens and paper, I'm not surprised.
Knowledge that is obsolete isn't necessarily worthless.
When I was studying Astrophysics I found turn of the century books invaluable, that is 1900s not 2000s, they described the universe in the language and knowledge base of the time, and in some cases these simpler descriptions greatly assisted understanding even if they were obsolete.
Last week I was trying to explain some logarithmic and derivative concepts to associates, the irrelevance of minutia and the importance of scale. Modern PCs and Calcs are not really of much help, they just deliver ever expanding number of digits which as we know from science and engineering will be largely irrelevant. So bizarrely, I brought a slide rule into work and they immediately understood that orders of magnitude relative to fractional errors. There is something very intuitive about the old ways.
I read a while back that there is new education research that suggests students will get better outcomes through a return to books, pens and paper, I'm not surprised.
Knowledge that is obsolete isn't necessarily worthless.
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