Why do teachers that teach theory only believe that their theory is the only fact?
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You might have one teacher that does this. All teachers do not do this.\n\nThen again, your theory is that, "teachers that teach theory only believe that their theory is the only fact'.\n\nIs this a fact or just the only theory you believe...\n\nIt is easy to show that your theory is not a good one. All I have to produce is a teacher that teaches theory but not believe it to be true. \n\nRespectfully...
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I think most Math teachers show students how to do problems not why they're done that way.Once that building block isn't there they struggle especially in higher Math where your expected to be at a certain level of knowledge.
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All people think. Some do it with greater success than others. \n\nYou can teach logic and you can teach patterns of inquiry, but I don't believe you can "teach" synthesis or evaluation. Some forms of analysis maybe because they can be pattern based. What a good teacher can do though is create situations where challenge and practice are possible.
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I like to think of pedagogy as the art of teaching a particular subject.  The way to explain topics so that they are best understood in an effiecient way.  \nWith that said, a theory is an idea that has not been proved or disproved.  I think that because we have not perfected the way people learn best, that within pedagogy there can be theories about how people learn.\n\nResearch usually has more to do with collecting information.  When we do research for papers, we gather information to prove our point from a variety of sources.  Scientific research gathers information through experiments to support a hypothesis.
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Teachers need to be taught how they should behave in front of their students.  Knowledable teachers are not good enough.  They language they used and how they present themselves are important too.
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No responsible science instructor would suggest that Darwin's theory is a fact. It may be supported by a massive preponderance of evidence, but is nonetheless theory. That said, gravity is a theory as well, but no one floats away.\n\nBiology students need only to understand Darwin's theory and to be able to work with it, not to believe that is a fact or even to believe that it is the best theory.
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When scientists make observations, they attempt to explain what is happening through a hypothesis. B/c it is a best educated "guess" it has to be tested over & over again.\n\nA theory, on the otherhand, is well-tested & widely accepted by members of the scientific community. Well-tested means that it has been tested time & time again w/ the same end result each time.
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The student must be able alter their thinking to that of the instructor to learn critical thinking skills. Yet thought learning retain their original though process or ideas without becoming indoctrinated with the instructors thought process permanently. \n\nThe lesson to be learned is how to teach yourself and become a cup of tea that at most is half full of the knowledge sought forever a student and insturctor.
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Terrific question. I wish more people would ask it.\n\n"Rely not on the teacher/person, but on the teaching. Rely not on the words of the teaching, but on the spirit of the words. Rely not on theory, but on experience. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. Do not believe anything because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything because it is written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and the benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."\n\nThat's what the Buddha said about how to discern religious truth from religious falsehood. Notice how similar it sounds to what scientist (and atheist) Richard Dawkins had to say on the subject in the letter he famously wrote to his daughter called "Good and Bad Reasons for Believing".
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because that's exactly what it is. there is nothing specific taught, it is all just general stuff about the particular subject. There is far to much in each subject to teach specifics so the general stuff is taught in school and then you can learn the specifics in college.
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I guess...you're thinking that old teachers are ignorant simply because most of them cant understand the lifestyle of our new generation is now dealing.  Remember that each day we developed and discovered so many things not just in our daily activities but also with our technologies.  When I was young I also asked the same thing about my old teachers before.  Why was it that they seem so ignorant?  Now, though I tried hard to be smart and level their way of thinking still some dare to say why I am so ignorant in so many things.  If you're a teacher just make it sure that when you become old someday your student will not ask you the same way  "Why are old teachers so ignorant? "
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One doesn't prove anything scientifically...only disprove\n\nScientists formulate hypotheses.  Through experimentation, some hypotheses are disproved.  Hypotheses that withstand repeated experiments over the broadest range of conditions become 'theory'...
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Do you mean the belief in science?  The basis of Science is proof.  Every scientific theory has to be proven and re-proven before it is excepted by the scientific community and eventually by (most) people.  That's why they call it scientific fact.\n\nOccasionally certain things are proven wrong and a new theory replaces it and is tested and proved to replace the old.  But to call the whole thing a load of balls is rediculous.\n\nWhat do you know of what you speak?
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In my understanding, a pseudoscientist makes scientific claims without evidence, or scues (sp?) the evidence so it will support their beliefs despite everything else saying otherwise
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Neither theory is completely adequate.
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Teaching is an art, not a science.  It requires knowledge, but more than that, it requires caring whether your students understand or not.  It requires caring whether they learn the things that are important to them, and not just the things you think they need, or that the school board or the teacher's union tells you to teach.  It takes, in short, loving your students and loving to teach.\n\nThe worst thing that happened to education in this country is the teacher's union, that pretends teachers are all essentially the same, with seniority being the only important variable, just like factory workers.  Students are not products of factories, God help us!
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That's an old fundamental problem.  Mathematicians and physicists tend to disbelieve their own observations and replace their experience with empirical results and tautological proofs.