Re: Topic maps and ordinary people

Patrick and all

Thanks for all these fascinating replies... :-)
You certainly make some very apt points.

On 17 June 2011 13:32, Patrick Durusau <patrick-Q/[email protected]> wrote:

> I suspect part of the problem is that we have been searching for *the*
> convincing explanation, as opposed to finding any number of convincing
> explanations for people in different circumstances.
>
>
I was originally (and still am) thinking along slightly different lines. I
fully recognise that there is no one "the" convincing explanation. But
rather than dividing the space between people in different circumstances,
I'm suggesting treating the issue as one of education, and indeed personal
development in conceptual sophistication. One comes across these kinds of
challenges in teaching mathematics, or (closer to home) programming, very
often.

What I am asking, then, is more or less this: does TM provide a more
fruitful approach (than other technologies) to devising a *set of stages* of
understanding, each of which can be mastered and which has some reasonable
motivation for people generally -- that is the kind of approach that I think
could have a better chance of getting somewhere.

Could there be such a set of stages acting as a ladder? Contemporary school
mathematics has been taught for maybe 300 years, so they have quite some
lead, but could part of the TM community be up to doing this much quicker,
perhaps with the help of .... .... ... topic maps?

Best wishes

Simon

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