Articles Tagged with physics

A grand memory for forgetting

Learning in compartments

There is so much to take in that we divide up our task subject by subject, rarely allowing something we’ve learned in one class (or other environment) to leak over into another.  This is not, in general, a good thing.

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Ideal lies

Why learn something that isn’t true?

As we progress in school, the lessons get more difficult and complicated.  Sometimes they’re difficult because we have to unlearn things.

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On textbooks

Learning and re-learning

Textbooks are to learn from, of course.  But who is doing the learning, and when?

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