Learning

I just wondered why not teach just science as it relates to everyday objects and teach only math in so far as it is relevant to teaching science. Take objects from everyday life and teach depending on the receptivity of the brain. Math is only a tool for measurement. Science is the study of objects in the world, their properties and behavior.

Physical science differs from life science with respect to one essential difference: life science deals entirely with living things - plant, animal and human beings. Physical science deals with the inanimate objects of the world. Mathematics is independent of matter, animate or inanimate.

Math is not a subject at all in the sense that it is entirely abstract. To learn, it is important to deal with something that it is perceived by the senses, something tangible and therefore it can be related to the subject matter directly. At least, until the student finishes school, it is important to keep things this way. The abstract can wait until a speciality is chosen for further studies. It is important to lay the foundation on specifics, before going deeper into the general and abstract nature of things.

In learning, matter and its measurement is what we are concerned with: that is the objective of all study. Why learn measurement independently of matter as a subject in itself. It can wait until it is taken up as a specialized study in abstraction. Learn measurement in school in so far as it applies to the objects we are dealing with in our study of science.

This way of teaching is done at a very early age in education; however, this is discarded very soon afterwards and the notion of subjects is introduced. The student then crams too many things in the mind without having any clue whatsoever as to its application in real world. Everything is abstract. There is no relation to the objects in the world. Most of what is crammed remains unused almost throughout the life. It also becomes very difficult for the child to figure out what is best suited to his or her temperament and skill.