<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Il giorno 28/ago/2015, alle ore 22:17, Alberto G. Corona <<a href="mailto:agocorona@gmail.com" class="">agocorona@gmail.com</a>> ha scritto:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Exactly Mike,<br class=""><br class="">The destruction of pedagogy and innovation by Rationalism:<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://nocorrecto.blogspot.com.es/2014/05/the-destruction-of-pedagogy-and.html" class="">http://nocorrecto.blogspot.com.es/2014/05/the-destruction-of-pedagogy-and.html</a></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Wright brothers and Watt were tinkerers, not scientists? Well, maybe they were not</div><div class="">_formally educated theoretical_ scientists. Science is every bit about trial-error experimentation</div><div class="">as is about rational thinking. Science lives on the curiosity of a human being that wants to</div><div class="">know what happens if he does something of which he cannot anticipate the effects.</div><div class="">So 19th and 20th century pioneers were scientists, and good ones indeed. </div><div class="">That post misses it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And talking about formalism, I’d like to ask the author of that post who he thinks has</div><div class="">brought humanity from Wright’s flying patch of metal pieces to the Apollo 11 mission,</div><div class="">and from Watt’s experiments to 15nm intel CPUs. Certainly not other tinkering, but </div><div class="">engineers that do hard physics backed by a strong mathematical background. </div><div class="">It is true that naked formalism is not pedagogical, but even when you start learning </div><div class="">at young age you have to learn that to do new things, _in this century_, you have to</div><div class="">understand how things work.</div><div class="">Easy tinkering things have already all been discovered, we missed that train.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Anyway I’m sorry, this was a bit OT, so I promise to not talk further about it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bye :)</div><div class="">Nicola</div></body></html>