Notices by Dan (dasy2k1@mastodonapp.uk)

@ajsadauskas @philipthalis have you got the same politicians there as we have here in the UK with HS2?

@ChrisMayLA6 well I am freinds with a couple of serving police officers in my local force (WMP)

They are stretched so thin after overall decade of budget cuts that they barely have enough people to deal with the level of serious violent crime on and day to day basis. They would absolutely love to deal with shoplifters and ASB but they are too busy trying to deal with people who think it's normal to carry a machete to actually begin with the nonviolent crimes

@RandomDamage @inthehands well trained police can help prevent crimes. But very very few places have police trained sufficiently or funded sufficiently to actually achieve this goal.

The UK used to but hasn't had for decades

@inthehands interesting, not who I was thinking of and who the quote is from. But definitely a contemporary even though he was a couple of decades older

Although the person I'm thinking of while a great educator had very little to do with the school system itself and is more known for non formal education.
He is also a product of his time and said much that is problematic by today's standards. Although he did change significantly post ww1 with respect to colonialism

@inthehands “True peace … suggests the triumph of justice and love among men; it reveals the existence of a better world where harmony reigns.” - Maria Montessori

The matching quote from this person is probably... (see next toot)

@inthehands "The first step to this end is to develop peace and goodwill within our borders, by training our youth of both sexes to its practice as their habit of life, so that the jealousies of town against town, class against class and sect against sect no longer exist; and then to extend this good feeling beyond our frontiers towards our neighbours."

@inthehands

A truly visionary educator from the early 20th century once said:

"The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system."

Although this is not his best known quote on the topic.
Extra kudos if you know who said that without looking it up

@dtauvdiodr @inthehands as somone who predominantly chose to study STEM topics and now work in engineering I can certainly see the benifits of it. But as much as anything else STEM focused courses should be predominantly focused on teaching observation, the scientific method. The ability to make a prediction of an outcome based on already known information. To then test that, and then refine your mental model based on those observations and then use that again