On study habits, I suspect the thing thing about group study is a tendency to distraction and to letting someone else's explanation or description of something substitute for your own having done it. I'm going to guess that there are scenarios, not only the one you describe, where group study can be very good. It's just not a substitute for doing your own work. Certainly the conversations I had with other students about class material was really important for my own understanding of it -- both in college and in grad school.
j
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 1:11 PM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> I've been a bookworm all my conscious life, but that's unusual.
>
> I don't know that reading kicks in for a lot of people until their thirties
> or so.
>
> All the kids I went to High School with were kick ass smart, but very few
> liked reading and I don't remember a single one whose parents had books in
> the house. And this was Fairfax high school, 98% jewish, top academic high
> school in Los Angeles in the sixties and seventies.
>
> Mostly what kids want to do is hang out with one another, which is mostly
> healthy I think. And I disagree about studying in groups. If I hadn't had a
> study buddy through the intensive Latin/Greek classes I took, I would have
> never made it through. Can you imagine translating Virgil for six hours a
> day (after 8 hours of class)?
>
> Joanna
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 8:04:12 AM
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] How Much Do College Students Learn, and Study?
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>
> On Jan 26, 2011, at 10:50 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> > Tentatively, the goal from which we must view the present is the goal of
> > good pay, good working conditions, and job security for _all_ teachers --
> > regardless of any 'evaluations' of any one teacher.
>
> Well, yeah, I'm all for that, but my question was why don't kids today want
> to read?
>
> Doug
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