Hogwarts Gymnastics Professor

Chapter 194: Beginning of School, Lesson 1: Scientific Thinking and Spirit

Chapter 194: The first lesson of school: scientific thinking and spirit

On September [-], [-], the three wizarding schools in the British wizarding world, Magic Primary School, Hogwarts and Azkaban, all ushered in the opening day.

All the tuition fees, textbook fees, and accommodation fees of the Magic Primary School and Hogwarts are borne by the Wizarding Council. For especially poor little wizards, the school will take the initiative to help them apply for grants and student loans.

Ensuring that every little wizard can receive compulsory education and that the cost of compulsory education does not cause any family or personal hardship is an important goal proposed by the Magical Council.

As a university in the British magic world, Azkaban charged a certain fee, but it was only a fraction of the education expenditure for cultivating a qualified college student.

The main purpose is to keep those wizards who don't really look like going to university, but come here purely for the welfare of the university.

If someone is really struggling but wants to go to college, Azkaban offers many work-study and part-time internship opportunities in addition to grants and student loans.

After all, those who can enter Azkaban under the current education system in the magic world can be regarded as dragons and phoenixes among the people in the magic world at this stage. Many of these wizards are willing to hire even if they work part-time on campus.

At this moment, in the auditoriums of the three magic schools, all the wizarding students looked at the rostrum. There is currently a vacant space on the rostrum, which is dressed up as a podium, and the words "first lesson of the school" are written on it with magic. .

There are a few cameras and a few reporters taking pictures next to it, and there are also several strange equipment, because holographic projection technology will be used here today.

A flash of light flashed, and Lockhart, the chairman of the Red Ghost Society and the chairman of the British Wizarding Council, appeared on the podium, and a subtitle automatically popped up after the words "First Lesson of School" at the top——Scientific Thinking and Spirit.

"Scientific Thinking and Spirit" is really the theme that Lockhart wants to talk about in this "First Lesson".

In the past three months, the Channel [-] of the British Wizarding TV Station, and the Magic and Science Education Channel have broadcast countless high-tech records in the Muggle world, and many products made by combining magic and technology have gradually entered British magic. Thousands of households in the world.

Therefore, the magic of Muggle science no longer needs to be emphasized by Lockhart, who is the chairman of the Red Ghost Society and the chairman of the British Wizarding Council, on such an occasion. What Lockhart wants to talk about is another thing— —Scientific thinking and spirit.

Generally speaking, in the British magical world, when science is mentioned, it must be combined with magic, but this is not the case only when scientific thinking and spirit are mentioned.

And scientific thinking and spirit are also the most difficult thing for ordinary wizards to understand, but what they need most. Therefore, Lockhart emphasized this point in the "First Lesson of School" in the British magic world.

Teachers, students, and other friends in the wizarding world, today I would like to talk to you about scientific thinking and spirit.

In the past three months, you have heard the interim Ministry of Magic and the Council of Magic talk about science many times. Some people even said that just like some people in the Muggle world believe in religion, our newly established Council of Wizards also believes in Scientology.

Here, I want to talk about why science is not Scientology, why it is not a religious belief.

All students must have a certain understanding of religion. After all, whether you are from the Muggle world or the wizarding world, you all celebrate Christmas.

If a person thinks that science is Scientology, it means that he has not understood the thinking and spirit of science at all.

I would like to ask all the students to understand and understand what is scientific thinking and spirit, that is - questioning, proof, experiment, science is a combination of induction, deduction, and causal models.

In layman's terms, the biggest difference between religious believers and scientists is that religious believers always believe and ask you to believe, but scientists always question and encourage you to question.

Religious believers always say that the predecessors are right and the founder is unquestionable, while the scientific community looks at the past theories with the greatest criticism and doubt.

In science, the theories of some masters were regarded as truth, but many of them were overturned by later scientists.

Aristotle, Newton, Einstein, you've all heard those names on the recent documentaries, they were all great theorists, but don't forget them.

The main reason why they can come up with some great theories is that even if they are questioning, they have overturned many previous theories, and many parts of their own theories have been overturned by later generations. This is the greatness of science.

Science does not necessarily represent the truth, but every step taken by science is a step closer to the truth. Every exploration is the pursuit of truth.

Therefore, students, if you want to learn scientific and magical knowledge well, the most important thing is to learn to question bravely. Although it is not enough to have brave questioning, if you do not have brave questioning, you are doomed to accomplish nothing.

Classmates, I hope you will always remember the sentence I said below, which may be the most correct sentence in the world, that is——

Nothing is ever right.

I hope that you will not only use the spirit and thought of this sentence in the study and research of science and magic, but also in your daily life.

Don't be superstitious about authority, don't follow blindly without thinking, and be a wizard who likes to think and dare to question.

Lockhart also said a lot, most of them were short stories about science, and some real-life examples to reflect scientific ideas. After all, it was the first lesson of the school, and Lockhart didn't want to make everything boring.

Lockhart's first lesson lasted about half an hour. Although it took a little longer, because Lockhart's narration was in-depth and easy-to-understand, it was suitable for all ages, and most wizards found it very interesting.

Even judging from the ratings, the ratings of The Wizard set reached more than 90%, directly crushing the sports channels, movie channels, and TV drama channels that have always dominated the ratings.

Of course, this is also largely due to the wizards' strong interest in science under the various overwhelming publicity during this period.

This made Lockhart very happy. You must know that even in the modern times before Lockhart traveled, more than 90% of the people in the world still did not believe in science and did not have basic scientific literacy.

Now there are more and more people with scientific spirit and literacy in the magic world. Against the background of the combination of magic and Muggle technology, there will be many useful results in the British magic world in the next few years.

In the wizarding world, scientific thinking is the primary productive force.

(End of this chapter)