Chris Goldman on the topic of "Learning":

I have learned that the most expedient way to learn nothing about a subject is to take a course in it. While I am a fan of the Socratic method, or any other teaching aid that involves pain or instills fear, I no longer endorse "First Class Academics." I equate, for example, taking a course in writing to attending an IMAX presentation of Life in Antarctica or embarking on a cruise ship voyage through Alaska. The problem with the traditional scholastic approach is that it removes from learning the valuable lessons learned from "errors." Without PAIN and ERROR, knowledge is not retained and "next-steps" are not sought. Error is the cream, the Gee, of learning. It is through trial and error that one breaks learning through the rote stage and into the more advanced instinct tier. Error produces valuable cognitive connections that make other subjects easier to learn. It still baffles my mind why high schools and colleges insist on a textbook, rather than clinical, approach to learning. Textbooks steal the valuable errors from their students and feed them, instead, a watered down summary of thought.

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