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I vaguely wonder if this strand of assumptions - that adults just can't learn things quickly - had its roots in debunked myths from 50s and 60s. You know the on
by zebraflask 7y ago
I vaguely wonder if this strand of assumptions - that adults just can't learn things quickly - had its roots in debunked myths from 50s and 60s. You know the ones: brain cells don't regenerate, etc.
- gowld 7y ago"You can't teach an old dog new tricks" is at least 300 years old. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/you_can%27t_teach_an_old_dog_new_tricks https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/you_can%27t_teach_an_old_dog_...
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- Mirioron 7y agoI think it has more to do with old people being more stubborn. I've noticed that often it's not that they're unable to learn things, but rather they're unwilling to learn.
- shereadsthenews 7y agoYou think old people are more stubborn than little children?
- dragonwriter 7y agoDealing with both regularly, that matches my experience. But that may be because of a nonrepresentative sample on one or both sides of the comparison.
- TheGRS 7y agoAnd rather than admit that you won't put the time in to practice a skill, its much easier to say that its "not for you" or "I'm too old to learn this", etc.
- distant_hat 7y agoThe stubbornness of little children is a different type than stubbornness of old people.