Learning is a ubiquitous, mysterious phenomenon

21 posted on 09/07/2017 4:19:47 AM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)

To: Attention Surplus Disorder

True,

Sorry, I was not attacking you... we keep learning to find the Big T Truth...

22 posted on 09/07/2017 4:45:21 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)

23 posted on 09/07/2017 4:49:09 AM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)

Learning without discerning is a dangerous thing. To discern, one must have some kind of measuring stick that is constant, proven and unchanging. New input must be held up against this unchanging truth and evaluated.

Measuring sticks that are not recommended:

Feelings

Scholarly sounding language

A bunch of scientists say...

Current cultural norms

Anecdotes

Statistics

24 posted on 09/07/2017 5:04:10 AM PDT by Drawsing (Fools show their annoyance at once, the prudent man overlooks an insult. Proverbs 12:16)

Apology accepted!

I am talking about an academic subject, or perhaps a skill. Not necessarily truth.

In my elem and high school days I was killer in math but quite indifferent to history. This “caused” two things:

1: I never really had to work to learn the next stage of math. Run me through a few examples, work through a dozen problems, and I latch on and get it.

2: I never really had to work to “learn” history at a level sufficient to get “B”s in elem >HS history. I really did not care about history, at the time I thought it was pretty useless to learn.

As a result, I never really “learned how to learn”. Of course, this was the 60’s and 70’s and we did not have the touchy-feely distinctions we have now, in essentially everything.

I am just saying, there must be approaches to learning things that you are WILLING to learn but have no special knack for. I never got that/those. When I got to Berkeley taking advanced math courses, every kid in that class was as smart as the smartest kid in class (which I almost was in HS) I got 19’s and 24’s on tests.

25 posted on 09/07/2017 8:59:51 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them!)

To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Why is the big question.... when one wants to know the why, they learn... I too never learned the skill of “learning” but wanted answers to why things happened... math was a puzzle to figure out and history told an interesting story, that now is PC precluded... truth suffers or perhaps I am blind to the ambitions of people... Kennedy wasn’t Camelot... a man with ambitions and needs... so too our rebel leaders... when we negate human nature for identity political nature we lose our search for truth.

26 posted on 09/08/2017 6:50:14 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)

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