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Subject:RE: Can you teach someone how to learn? From:"Wade Courtney" <WCourtney -at- Elance -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 9 Oct 2002 15:55:19 -0700
How else did we "learn" that fire was hot, or that typing rm -rf * at the command prompt was a bad thing.
Wade
> Snip from: Wade Courtney --
> No, you can't teach someone to learn. People know how to
> learn, but using methods known only to them. The key is
> figuring out how someone learns then learning how to teach
> them in a way they can process information.
Wade Courtney makes an interesting point, but the point seems
to lead to a depressing conclusion: We have all learned how to
learn by stumbling around without guidance or technique until
we stumbled accidentally onto something that worked for us.
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