Myths & Conspiracies outline

• page todo: track student misconceptions, myths and conspiracies

conspiracy theory =

• attributing to motive what is not understood or explained
• teacher's role
  • causality v. correlation
    • what is causal (makes something happen" versus what is coincidental or related without cauality (correlation)

Masons

• Mason guilds across Middle Ages Europe
  • standardized building practices
  • set and promulgated rules and precedents
  • master masons
    • in charge of large construction projects
    • interpreted and implemented architectural drawings and plans
  • architectural symbols and signs
    • said to originate with Hiram of Tyre who built Solomon's Temple at Jerusalem
      • source: "Brunelleschi's Dome" p. 47

Atlantis

• Atlantis myth created by Plato in >> refernce
  • Plato's intention was to criticize the sea-based Athenian empire