Education as a Spectrum
Date: March 9 2020
Summary: The idea that there is no clear delineation of knowledge in reality.
Keywords: ##zettel #education #knowledge #science #archive
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My best friend Wesley Samples believes that education – and for that matter, knowledge – falls more along a spectrum than in discrete categories (such as Mathematics and Biology). One can look at biology and find the idea of the golden ratio repeated across nature [1], [2]; example being the Aeonium Tabuliforme:
There is the idea of the creature being a biological entity motivating questions such as
Why does the Nautilus have a shell like this?
What function does it serve?
Kuhnian Reasoning on Non-Linearity of Education
Beyond Kuhn's general musing in the _Structure of Scientific Revolutions, his thought can also be linked to the notion that science and education is not linear.
How To Cite
Zelko, Jacob. Education as a Spectrum. https://jacobzelko.com/03092020022908-education-spectrum. March 9 2020.
References:
[1] Golden ratio discovered in a quantum world. Eurekalert.org, 2010.Available: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-01/haog-grd010510.php
[2] R. Padovan, “Proportion: Science, Philosophy, Architecture,” Nexus Netw. J., vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 113–122, 2002, doi: 10.1007/s00004-001-0008-7.