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It depends. Each case is different, the safest place is the dogma.
by jacques_chester 10y ago
It depends. Each case is different, the safest place is the dogma.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoYou may have more experience than me, but at this point in my life, I find myself disagreeing with this. In fact, one of the biggest problems I had with education is teaching dogmas. On the other hand, when I did teaching, tutoring and lecturing, I always tried to make it clear and explicit that what I'm telling is a practical simplification, that it has limits here and there, but within these particular constraints it's a good approximation. And the feedback I got was always that it made things much clearer to people - people felt it makes sense, because it had context.
- jacques_chester 10y agoI guess I am doing a bad job of explaining. What I taught was a way of working. I didn't deviate from the practices, because the principles are easy to state but hard to truly grok. Going back to what I said earlier, this is the difference between weightlifting drills for various parts of the movement, versus discussions of physiology, anatomy, anthropometry or physics. You start with the drills.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoThanks for the clarification. So it's something like, first learn to do something in a decent way, and only then - when you're familiar with the subject matter - start thinking from first principles?
- jacques_chester 10y agoSort of. It's mostly about instilling habits of thought -- eg asking "how do we test this?" before touching a keyboard. Learning when and why to break the rule takes longer. It helps to first go through a bunch of concrete examples.