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This kind of thing always sounds like an excuse to me. If learning to think was a thing, surely the content of the course should matter? After all, this argumen
by nitwit005 10y ago
This kind of thing always sounds like an excuse to me. If learning to think was a thing, surely the content of the course should matter? After all, this argument implies that it's not included in what was taught before university. And why wasn't it taught in high school if it was so important?
- scotty79 10y ago> And why wasn't it taught in high school if it was so important? Sometimes it is taught earlier but that just requires a great teacher and only so few of great teachers want to deal with adolescent youth for disgraceful payment. College is a good time to start teaching people to think and to learn because it's the first time when most of the young people begin to understand that learning is just for their benefit and nobody else actually cares if they learn anything. > If learning to think was a thing, surely the content of the course should matter? It does matter to some degree. Learning to prove mathematical theorems teaches you to think better than analyzing poetry.