[lbo-talk] MH & DG on university

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Mon Feb 27 15:00:17 PST 2012


In my experience, learning on your own is mostly doable if you already know the context. For example, being familiar with hummanities, I can learn on my own fairly easily there. Languages too.

But in science it's very hard because I have very little context, and I can't tell the jargon from the real.

Also, learning on your own has a tendency to make you hang on to everything that reinforces your own prejudices, whereas in a group, you might be led to consider other options and retain more.

Joanna

----- Original Message ----- Chuck Grimes said..."This also reminds me that the most important thing to learn, is how to learn on your own. Once you get that, you can teach yourself, with occasional critiques from whoever. This forms the basis of a conceptual university "

DING DING DING DING! Completely right. It's amazing how few people have this skill. It seems to me that the "war on imagination" ultimate victory is preventing people from knowing how to learn. If someone doesn't have that ability, it's almost impossible from them to escape the major narratives that are bashed into their heads on a daily basis. -- -Nathan Tankus ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk



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