Re: Ejamacation - More Failure
By: Zimbler0
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Sun, 15 Dec 13 8:32 PM
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Interesting article KTC.
I think you said something a little while back
that bothered me . . something about teaching our
little kids 'how to think'.
I thought perhaps you were against 'rote memorization'.
Anyway, I keep thinking back to my earliest educations,
at Holy Trinity (Catholic) elementary school. I remember
learning about such subjects as geography via
'rote memorization'.
I used to know all the States and their capitals . . .
and I can find Afghanistan or Somalia on the map . . .
How many of our 'younger generations' can?
First, one has to have a 'body of knowledge' - obtained
through 'rote memorization' then one can learn to
think using that knowledge.
Example: First I learned what numbers were and what
they meant. Then I learned addition and subtraction -
largely through memorizing the 'addition tables'.
Followed by multiplication and division via the
times tables.
After which I had the tools to learn to do word problems -
which is where 'learning to think' happens.
If one does not have the material to think about . . .
if one does not have the historical perspective and
the knowledge of what happened, and why, . . . One
could have all the 'thinking ability' in the universe
and still not make the correct decisions.
Example 2. In post invasion Iraq, a WMD was used as
an IED. The WMD was a binary nerve gas artillery shell and nobody got killed when it went off.
If one does not know what the acronyms mean and is
clueless as to what 'binary' weapons are . . . well,
Clo and OCU are prime examples of what a lack of
knowledge produces.
Zim.
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