Meditation

Here is the best description of meditation I've found.


Meditation: More Than Relaxation


Richard

Bathtub Wisdom

If you know how a bathtub works then you can learn how your body processes and eliminates drugs.  But students in public school have a law blocking their path to learning math this way.  Math education in America requires years of practice calculating answers using pencil and paper so that students can pass a standardized test.

If you know how to use a computer to build a model then you can learn all the basic mathematical equations.  But students in public school have a law blocking their path to learning math this way.  Math education in American requires years of practice calculating answers using pencil and paper so that students can pass a standardized test.

If you know how to use a computer to build a model of a bathtub then you can learn pharmacokinetics.  But students in public school have a law blocking their path to learning math this way.  Math education in American requires years of practice calculating answers using pencil and paper so that students can pass a standardized test.

Testing and System Dynamics

As long as the public school standardized tests don’t include questions that test for System Dynamics knowledge and only test for ability to calculate, then we don’t stand a chance of making changes to how things are taught. Unfortunately, I think we need someone who can attack the standardized math testing in a way to discredit it.

 

We need to create a gap between the testing of calculating skills and testing for SD skills. Associate testing of calculating skills with cockroaches or bedbugs and people will want to get rid of them. Associate the testing of SD skills with success, leadership, solving real problems, making lots of money, getting a job and people will want to include them on the standardized tests.