Website review: pjammer: My Favorite Liar
KarenAK discovered this in Psychology
•13 reviews since Dec 29, 2006
psychology, education, teaching
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KarenAK discovered 21 months ago- This is good. With a prof like that I might have gotten better grades...
- stargazer902 rated 16 months ago
- Now that was a great teacher! What a great way to encourage critical thinking.
- snottgoblin rated 17 months ago
- Moral of the story - question everything, learn how to learn.
- HarukoBass rated 19 months ago
- Quite smart, I almost wish some of my teachers would do this so that it forced me to study, since I have much difficulty focusing anyway.
- hapinachu rated 20 months ago
- From the page: "Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told--and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.' The reason is that beliefs guide behavior, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion. -Michael Crichton, The Lost World"
- Patacake rated 20 months ago
- Excellent idea!!!
- jb1998 rated 20 months ago
- From the page: "Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told--and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.' The reason is that beliefs guide behavior, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion. -Michael Crichton, The Lost World" Found at a link provided by http://dashiell.stumbleupon.com We all should have been so lucky as to have a professor like this.
- Dashiell rated 20 months ago
- To teach critical thinking, a teacher uttered one lie in every lecture.
- JDB252 rated 21 months ago
- Excellent strategy. I wish I had a teacher like that.
- alexko rated 21 months ago
- A great teaching technique. From the page: "This was an insidiously brilliant technique to focus our attention - by offering an open invitation for students to challenge his statements, he transmitted lessons that lasted far beyond the immediate subject matter and taught us to constantly checksum new statements and claims with what we already accept as fact."
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