3. Subjects and Disciplines
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
—Henry Brooks Adams
Compartmentalized Curricula
The subjects taught in the educational process are classified by disciplines. As a result, we are accustomed to thinking that problems are disciplinary by nature: for example, that there are physics problems, chemistry problems, biology problems, economics problems, psychology problems, and so on and on. There are absolutely no such things as disciplinary problems. The disciplinary description in front of the word problem tells us something, but nothing about ...
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