Without this understanding, students are ill-equipped to deal with the many false ideas they confront and are easy prey for hucksters and demagogues. Teachers and parents alike do not appreciate this scrutiny. Indeed, valid knowledge is hard to come by. Yet, for their own well-being, students need to understand the arduous processes that distinguish fact from cocktail party prattle and dangerous demagoguery. Samuel Scudder A No scientific theory is a collection of facts. . . .
Science finds order and meaning in our experience.
Jacob Bronowski A Data, data everywhere, but not a thought to think. The student who merely cows, robs himself, without knowing it, of his education and his soul. The student who only bulls robs himself, as he knows full well, of the joys of inductive discovery. As you well know from experience and our class reading, this is not easy. Read in the assigned area or an area of personal interest.