Thursday, January 21, 2021

Galileo’s Dialogue

 

Galileo’s stuff apparently was presented as dialogue in 1632....  nothing changed for centuries.... still riding horses for centuries.... slave labor..., .. obviously didn’t work... dialogic method still doesn’t work today... but Art Degree people keep trying to employ it expecting a different result...



 

12 comments:

Peter Pan said...

Giordano Bruno got the 'monologue' treatment.

lastgreek said...

Steve Jobs considered his art courses invaluable.

The medical scientist Dr. William Haseltine mentions how invaluable his all-round education (art and science) was. Just to name a few...

A lot of wars and civil wars in Europe in the 1600s. Hardly time for any leisure, eh?

Btw, I mentioned "leisure" because the Greek word for "school" means just that -- leisure.

Peter Pan said...

That must've been really old school. In the days before leisure became hard knocks.

Matt Franko said...

What is that word?

lastgreek said...

σχολείο

Btw... Casanova had an easy time seducing women, because most husbands were gone seeking fortune in foreign wars. A lot of lonely women. Can’t blame him, can you? And why I admire the man

Matt Franko said...

What’s the transliteration?

Matt Franko said...

Academe? Academia? Academy?

Matt Franko said...

Sigma chi omega lambda epsilon iota omega?

Scoleio ? Maybe where we get “school”?

Matt Franko said...

Greek how do you get the Greek letter to post here without google translating them?

lastgreek said...

“Copy” the word from translate.google, com, then I “paste” it here.

lastgreek said...

I use the phone, so I touch the word until it highlights then I press copy

Matt Franko said...

καρέκλα

Thanks!