Thoughts on Education
Just because it’s intuitive, it’s not anti-rational. It’s time for us to outgrow the simplistic ‘good/bad’ labeling.
I already talked about how hard it has become for us to discern between accurate and deceiving information, in the age of easily accessible Internet, when almost anybody can publish almost anything with little accountability.
This time, I focus my attention on those situations when we have a rather neutral information, presented as fair and balanced, but polarized towards ridiculing or condemning the matter exposed.
It all started with a news published a few weeks ago.
Recently, in some school district in my country, teachers received an offer from an independent provider — via school administration authority — for a free online class on… numerology.
If you’re not familiar to numerology, it’s viewed by modern scholars as a pseudoscience or merely a belief in mystical relationships between numbers and synchronistic events.
Some sources attribute its introduction into western philosophy through Pythagoras, but, as with…