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False dichotomy. Understandings aren't completely wordless or wordable. They fall along a scale. > Anything could have helped. If something helped a person, a
by darkerside 9y ago
False dichotomy. Understandings aren't completely wordless or wordable. They fall along a scale.
> Anything could have helped.
If something helped a person, and they want to pass it along, even if it's difficult to communicate in a tangible fashion, I'm not going to stand in their way.
- derefr 9y agoSure, but If I want to learn a difficult-to-communicate lesson, I would hope that the people who have a wordless understanding would keep their communicating to themselves—unless-and-until they come up with some coherent words to match their thoughts, that they can be sure can be used to reconstruct those thoughts without their brain there to help. People don't yet know what they don't know, until they know it—so it can't be the learner's task to preemptively avoid vacuous lessons. That responsibility has to fall to the teacher.
- darkerside 9y agoSometimes what sounds like nonsense hints at a higher truth. http://m.nautil.us/issue/40/learning/teaching-me-softly-rp http://m.nautil.us/issue/40/learning/teaching-me-softly-rp