• Manticore@lemmy.nz
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      5 days ago

      ‘Common sense’ usually means ‘I was taught this young enough that i don’t remember learning it, and therefore treat the knowledge as instrinsic’

      Like the only reason it’s Common Sense not to put metal in a toaster is because of warnings from others about it. It’s not like our species evolved al9ngside toasters.

      A lot of kids out there are neglected and taught to obey instructions, but not why those instructions matter, what they do, or the comprehension needed to optimise them.

    • Axolotl@feddit.it
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      4 days ago

      Often people forget (or more commonly: don’t know) that homo sapiens are called like that because we were the only* species of homo that actively tries to give all the knowledge they had to their kids

      *well, we weren’t the only ones, homo erectus and other homos did it too to a certain extent i belive