delanceyplace.com 5/1/13 – a new but suspect education technology
More on the “Technology 1, Humans 0” theme.
Nice tie in to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert Persig)
‘…Famously, in his book Phaedrus, Plato decried that more widely spread use of writing as detrimental to the attainment of wisdom. In it, he used the character of Socrates to proclaim that writing
“is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth,
but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have
learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.”