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Emmm, Socrates was right I know I remember things waaaay better when someone TELLS me something, versus when I read it in a book or online.
by paulnelligan 16y ago
Emmm, Socrates was right
I know I remember things waaaay better when someone TELLS me something, versus when I read it in a book or online.
- lidmith 16y agoIf I have an interesting conversation with a friend, and we're discussing something, I will remember it pretty well. If I am listening to a professor read through a lecture, with little to no interaction from the students, I am not as likely to remember it as if I had read it from a book.
- eru 16y agoYes. I like lectures, by the way, but that's because most professors are smart enough to interact with the audience.
- protomyth 16y agoI have often found that most college lectures have a hard time with distance learning. There normal lecture style translates very badly on a TV screen and people tend to fall asleep in front of a boring TV. The best distance learning teachers I have found come from a community college background. They tend to have to be more interesting to their students and know how to work an audience.
- phoboslab 16y agoNot everyone learns in the same way. Some people learn better when they see something, some may want to hear it, some read... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_styles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_styles
- pyre 16y ago> Emmm, Socrates was right Consider the following statement: It's a good thing that the Library of Alexandria was destroyed, because now all of that information was handed down the *right* way, through oral tradition...
- pradocchia 16y agoIt's more than that. Writing naturally invests itself with great authority. It tends to override ones own judgement, reason, experience, and sensibilities. This is what Socrates was referring to. Thus the skilled reader learns to question authority, as a necessary defense.