viernes, 30 de mayo de 2025

Personification in Education

I've never been in this sub so I'm sorry if my post seems strange, I just have a general question. Do you ever feel that personification in the classroom is damaging to education? Things are presented as having happened intentionally, by a sentient thing, when that's not the case. I think it is especially rampant in evolution and astronomy.

For example: "The caterpillar evolved false eyes to scare away predators." The caterpillar never actually thought about anything or made a choice, the species of caterpillar as a whole did not hold a meeting a decide to do this. The reality is that at some point in time a caterpillar had some freak mutation that HAPPENED to look like eyes, and that caterpillar went on to be a butterfly and reproduce, likely with a lot of LUCK, and the gene lives on. This luck factor is almost never talked about in evolution and instead we choose to word our sentences in a way that completely misrepresents the truth.

I hope this makes sense. It's kind of a shower thought I had and I'm very curious about what people in the education space might think.



Submitted May 30, 2025 at 12:06AM by SmoothCriticism2152 https://ift.tt/CLDpu7Y

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