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Felicia
be open-minded, yet able to discern truth from sophistry
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Motivating Students to Learn Science: A Physicist’s Perspective
As a physicist who has researched and published in di-verse areas of atomic, nuclear, optical, statistical, and gravitational physics, I understand firsthand the need for broad mastery of phenomenological details and mathematical and experimental techniques in science. But—and this point is essential—I acquired such knowledge for specific purposes,... See more
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Motivating Students to Learn Science: A Physicist’s Perspective
In the US, for example, a study by the US National Science Foundation, released at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), reported that about one half of Americans did not know or believe that human beings evolved from earlier species of animals (Neuman, 2014), and nearly one fourth of Americans d
... See moreMotivating Students to Learn Science:
A Physicist’s Perspective
The will to learn is an intrinsic motive , one that finds both its source and its reward in its own exercise. The will to learn becomes a “ problem ” only under specialized circumstances...where a curriculum is set , stu-dents confined , and a path fixed. The problem exists not so much in learning itself , but in the fact that what the school impos... See more
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Jerome Bruner (Bruner, 1966):
being unclean doesn’t make you a bad person, just like being clean doesn’t make you a good person.
— Rayne Fisher-Quann, Mar 21, 2022
it is a great injustice that the right has developed an ideological monopoly on discussions of so-called “cancel culture”, so much so that it feels vaguely right-wing to be discussing it in any capacity at all. we need to be having conversations about this dynamic as it relates to abolitionist academics being pushed out of office, journalists who g
... See moreand the letter of the law exists not to enforce what is moral or good — rather, it exists to provide men with a line to toe. it functions not to ensure that men don’t do heinous things, but to make sure they can get away with heinous things by learning the cheat codes: fuck her on the day of her eighteenth birthday, make sure she can sit up straigh
... See moresometimes, in the small, secret part of myself where i tuck away my worst impulses, i wished they had gone just a little further, wronged me just a little bit more clearly, because maybe then i wouldn’t feel quite so crazy about hurting so much. without laws broken or lines crossed, women’s pain is madness.
— Rayne Fisher-Quann Nov 21, 2021