Postby Technomancer » Thu Mar 25, 2004 8:41 am
Mostly, I just concentrated more on my other work, including my multimedia signal processing course, and a paper that I want to get ready to submit to the International Journal of Engineering Education. I *finally* got some comments about another paper that's going to be submitted to IEEE Transactions on Speech Processing, so I've got to respond to those as well. Not to mention writing an extended abstract for a conference I'm attending this summer.
Of course, I also hung out a bit at Anime Angels.
The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in corrrecting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry—is not even a "subject"—but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.
Neil Postman
(The End of Education)
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge
Isaac Aasimov