RE: General relativity 101 - Gravitational waves in a nutshell
don't get me wrong here, i think its a GREAT idea, the younger kids are the easier they take things in and the earlier you gain knowledge the more connecting points you have which means you can absorb more faster without people having to explain. My only benefit was that i could read before 1st year so i got a bit of a headstart because i could take in a lot more of everything i saw around me.
Now if they had taught me about the movement of the planets (even just that) when i was six (or even in kindergarten, as long as it comes with metafors) i would probably be a bit further than having had to just nag my parents with questions until the buried me under encyclopedia lol
i wasnt like acting as if it would be too hard for a kid, i just say its a shame it doesnt get done ... i think a toddler can get the basic concepts if they come in tales, maybe ESPECIALLY them, and if they have their world image instated like that from very young age, then everything after that will be interpreted in a framework of understanding, it should be .. .exponential ?
it still shows btw, im nothing of a teamplayer and id rather drop dead looking things up for 24 hours or more before i ask anyone lol
first three years as they say , but maybe its the first six (well they would be freud and freud suffers a bit from local era-syndrome i'm afraid not all his stuff is applicable across all culture and times)
which is not physics ofcourse, although everything is physics since brains are made of particles
but you just said that to brag because its your kid didnt you :p
i know a thing or two about the competitive ego of the scientist ... i suppose it can be hard sometimes
its a quest for immortality, isnt it ?
What matter is not the topic but how the message is passed to the next generation (and which messages). :)
in most cases i would definitely agree, but some people have really bad messages haha , i see there's a new article, time to dust of my french, actually not bad you do that now and then, i can use some practice, i dont have money to visit paris once a month lol
You always have the English version not too far from the French one. Don't worry. Unfortunately, my Flemish is too rusted (I didn't speak it for about 20 years) so that you should not count too much on the Flemish version. ^^
you actually speak dutch ? i mean like flemish (same thing , gramatically lol but the mentality might as well be half a lightyear away) ... well so far when reading the french posts i havent had to refer to the english one, which is a good thing, i wish i knew enough of the jargon to help translate but i'm afraid i would make too many mistakes on the technical terms there :|
you actually speak dutch ? i mean like flemish (same thing , gramatically lol but the mentality might as well be half a lightyear away) ... well so far when reading the french posts i havent had to refer to the english one, which is a good thing, i wish i knew enough of the jargon to help translate but i'm afraid i would make too many mistakes on the technical terms there :|
I used to speak Dutch (or at least say things close enough to Dutch to be understandable). But a lack of practice kills it. This being said, if I were in a Dutchy environment, I am pretty convinced it could come back quickly ;)
i found that out last year in Paris, i actually studied "modern languages" in hi-school (well, studied is a bit of an over-exaggeration lol) ... i started out in Latin -> Latin-math, because the tests said i should and everyone was like
because the kid was smart ... (i speak about myself in third person like that a lot yes when it comes to that age, i noticed that) so the kid did, because that's what kids do , aim to please (well, most do i suppose at that age) , which was a bad idea, because that was the most boring ever, but it helps with understanding stuff like reading spanish i suppose, basic roots of roman languages. When i was 15 the hormone attack turned the kid into a normal teenager but the culture shock for my family was apparently too hard. I'll save the story but i switched school mid-year to be with a girlfriend in another school (here in hickville), and here the culture shock was even harder, also they were all teaching stuff they crammed into my head long ago in that previous catholic school PLUS i was in a class with 15 girls and 2 guys (including me) at the age of 15, coming from an all-boys military prison (close to it, if i think back to that catholic ed) ... doesnt need explaining i suppose, so they kicked me out, but they didnt really kick me out, hickville solution , my parents werent really on my side because i wasnt that kid anymore, no paperwork, nothing, i just got refused access right before exams, but allowed to do them (obviously since they didnt officially do anything)
my loathing for this place goes at least 30 years back, after which i went to some public school to study languages but after a two years SO bored i just started treating it like uni and went only to the few teachers who were interesting (not many hehhe) but it turns out you cant do that when you're in highschool and so and so, and in the end i quit, and i still think that was one of the best decisions of my life, all things considered i should have quit at 16 , found some part time stuff and started on my own things but we all know the arrow of time :))))
and that's my version of a long story short
(not bad for my doing lol) , i think dutch is, globally speaking, obsolete, if you go by numbers you'd say spanish or chinese is worth the try but i think english will just do, its already established, i often find myself having to think about a flemish word longer than i would english because i communicate a lot more in english, and if i just spoke dutch i couldnt reach 90% of the people i do know, maybe even less so don't lose sleep over it
(and don't tell the nationalists, they still think a separated flanders can hold its own in the world and everyone should just speak flemish heh ;-)
i went back once later to study socio-cultural (with letter of recommendation and admittance test since i dont have my highschool degree and belgium is made of protocol) but that got screwed over girlfriend troubles (im a total emo in relationships), i tried to start a bachelor psychology at open university (degrees are valid everywhere in europe xept belgium lol, here you need to do a year of schoolbench if you want that plaque on your wall but that was the least of my concerns) but i couldnt pay for it because there was no "work" (the sacred W-word)
and after that i swore never again, and i dont find myself lacking when it comes to finding things out, i now even have an online physics mentor
English is currently sufficient to be internationally understood. At least for now. I can't tell for the future, but I pretty agree neither Dutch nor French would win... :D
look who's back from the dead :D
does this mean we can expect a continuaton of the teachings of @lemouth ? :) i doubt chinese would win either, asian languages tend to be overly nuanced, not just by the way social structure is embedded in it, it would be too hard for anyone but kids (in most cases) to get it really right (i m o ofcourse, opinions may vary) , i hope it was a nice holiday, wb