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Teaching the scientific method (lemmy.world)
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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 38 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I would often turn it around and ask them first, what do you think might happen, and walk them through why they think that. Let them build their own hypothesis to be tested.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Teaching your children to think for themselves? We’ll have none of that here!

Good for you. Socratic method.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 7 points 2 days ago

I think they're both smarter than me because of it. But it was easier to use the built-in curiosity of a kid (the imfamous repeated WHY) to drive them to learn things than to just feed them whatever answer was available, or not at all. That's the worse thing a parent can do is shut down a kid's craving for answers.