2012-11-19, 07:03 PM
FenixR Wrote:For the students? Not really, they are just learning what other people have already researched.
Maybe, depending on how you learn or, in other words, the teacher's method.
What about parents? Media? Society in general? Could those be considered education too? And if so, science?
Why consider education as only academia? And even if one considers only academia why have such a narrow view of it? Personal expierence and "standard" public education in most places doesn't mean that's all there is to education.
I don't have enough time to search but I'm sure there are schools that apply John Dewey's theory: "take the scientific method to teaching, so that the kids learns to observe, make hypothesis, draw conclusions..." So that it's them who discover what has been discovered already (when possible).