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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:26am on 2006-09-11 under

"Most people think that learning is something that happens at you: that one knowledgeable person talks, the class listens, and that's everything to learning. They think that when you can repeat back the words that you've heard, you have learned.

"That might describe memorizing, but it's not learning.

"Learning is the ability to use information. It comes through struggle: testing material, finding what's solid and what shatters. It comes through honest and real debate, seeing all sides of an issue, and knowing the strengths and weaknesses of all of them. If it doesn't stand up to criticism, then it's not learning."

-- [livejournal.com profile] chipuni, 2006-04-19

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posted by [identity profile] silmaril.livejournal.com at 04:36pm on 2006-09-11
Good one. All I can say, really.
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posted by [identity profile] chipuni.livejournal.com at 08:38pm on 2006-09-11
*deep blush*

Thank you.
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posted by [identity profile] madbodger.livejournal.com at 09:00pm on 2006-09-11
And that is why high school in this country generally sucks and why I suck
at that style of so-called "education".
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Which is Why I Aced High School on 1% of My Brain

posted by [identity profile] anniemal.livejournal.com at 01:13pm on 2006-09-14
Then arrived at University at a serious disadvantage. I actually had to study things, and extrapolate for myself. Yeesh!

There were many tough nights in the carrels of the Science Library. If I went home I'd get distracted, and start sewing or cooking or reading fiction. The nice librarians did not throw me out often. Sometimes they let me sleep, knowing I wasn't going anywhere except for more books in the 6 hrs between shifts.

Now that young people (anyone younger than I) call me "ma'am" instead of "miss" I've kind of learned the usefulness of some of those idiot facts I regurgitated in High School. And they're few and far between. But useful when they're useful.

I did manage to explain to my High School Administration why I needed to walk out on them. They stopped giving me a hard time, gave me my degree, and were glad to be shut of me. I was relegated to being the State University's Problem. Where there was enough to learn that I wasn't much of one.
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And Standard American High School Does Suck

posted by [identity profile] anniemal.livejournal.com at 01:28pm on 2006-09-14
Because I could slice those Standard Tests like a hot knife through butter does not mean that many of my talented and intelligent classmates could. Part of the reason the School District was so glad to be rid of me was that I pointed out that many pupils (my colleagues) had abilities that did not show up on those tests. The Administration did not like that, either.

For knowing stupid,

Andrea
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