@farmerman,
Quote:I saw that the PA GOP caucus in the state house was reaffirming the 2001 state ed policy which is definately non sectarian and pro science.
Good grief!! That should be interesting.
Still--if you are defining "non-sectarian" and "science" yourself and for your own uses I don't suppose much will change bearing in mind that everybody else will be doing the same.
It might not even matter if the scientific investigations of Mr Fox are anything to go by as reported in his The Influence of Subjective Preference on Memory.
Quote:.......(Memory) as evinced by both immediate and delayed recall, is much more efficient in those cases where there is a distinct subjective preference for what is learned.
and
Quote:Nothing can well be more "subjectively subjective" than subjective preference, and this has been shown to produce objective mental effects in the greater efficiency of memory; so that we seem to be justified in refusing to abandon the idea of causal efficiency in the realm of the mind.
So what you need do is focus more on preferences before they are preferred rather than on science classes for late adolescents when the preferences are already established. Which might rattle your nerves instead of this easy ride you are indulging in on schools when there exists a range of other educational inputs which are outside schools and preceding them.
And we have to wonder what it was that determined your subjective preference and your need to be subjectively subjective in the service of promoting that very subjective preference so that ultimately it will prevail in all those corners of the land where the control of children's minds becomes your responsibility. I assume you accept the need to control children's minds if only because of what horrible little monsters they all are unless controlled.
Did the religious instruction teacher cane you once. Or did you enjoy confounding him with stuff you had read in Science Made Simple?
This memory efficiency thingy is posited on the Pleasure/Pain continuum and on separating physical sensation from ego pleasure. The ego gets pleasure by being stroked and pain by not being but the ladies can explain that better than I ever could.
So I'm interested, like you are in my drinking habits, in whether the root of your subjective preference is a pleasureable or painful expereience.
I would guess that confounding your religion teachers gave you pleasure. Mr Arnold explains the joys of it somewhere. And it must be an ego pleasure. To stand before the class and tie your teacher into red-faced, flustered knots is enjoyable I must admit. I came to it late in life. At school I sat on the back row hoping not to be noticed. I had adults pegged from a long way off.
The morphology of the subjective preference is easy to follow. It feeds on itself. Science Made Simple Parts 2,3,4,5 and 6. Onwards to gate-crashing a revivalist social gathering, where new worlds are created, and giving them a piece of your mind. Confounding people in greater numbers. With non-sectarianism, like at football matches, and pro science as in Advanced Science Made Simple.
