ABSTRACT
Learn facts, not analytical processes: this is the message of much of our education. Memorize and regurgitate past wisdom and sacred opinion.
Or open your eyes, learn to think, to observe critically, to test all received knowledge and opinion and truth. Then, based on informed and aware observation, abstract conclusions and opinions to arrive at your own map of reality. In the process be carefully aware of levels of abstraction, of real and theoretical territories, of what is verifiable and what assumed, of what is sacred and suspect and of what can be tested by the scientific method and what must be derived by unafraid logical analysis.
