Displeased with an emphasis on "fact-cramming," educators of the 1920s embraced the Project Method.
"We need to rebalance the heavy emphasis on facts that soon become obsolete with universal tools all doctors need.
We hope to bring this emphasis on facts and truth to the attention of the current administration.
Gove says it'll be pared down to focus on core knowledge in traditional subjects, restoring a old-fashioned emphasis on facts and figures.
I hear you suggesting that maybe too much of an emphasis on facts, on detail, is the wrong way to go, whereas stimulating the curiosity is what we want to do.
Yet the education system with its continued emphasis on facts and figures and drilling of mental arithmetic has remained stubbornly rooted in the past.Its continued economic success suggests that Japan's teenagers are paying less heed to all this, as they quietly master the creative skills needed to prosper in a modern world.
What is taught need not be "our island story", a narrative full of shifty foreigners and eager Empire builders, but it should have more emphasis on facts than the present focus on soap opera inspired empathy (how would you have felt if you had been a single mother in Victorian times? Grim. What was it like to catch the bubonic plague? Even grimmer).
But this does not seem entirely correct, because in the midst of criticizing positivism, Horkheimer notes that there is, "lurking" in positivism's emphasis on facts, "something like a reaction against the alliance of metaphysics and oppression" (p. 232).
He did find the book objective in its emphasis on facts over theory, and depicting clearly application of information theory to psychology.
The role acquisition process and the strong emphasis on facts and skills may also alienate the students from their own feelings and experiences, thus undermining the possibility for self-reflection and emotional development among the students.
