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At one point when my son was young and not doing well in school we had him tested. We were told he was a kinesthetic learner. At about that time he was getting

At one point when my son was young and not doing well in school we had him tested. We were told he was a kinesthetic learner. At about that time he was getting into skateboarding. When he grew up he became a brilliant skateboarder who is well known for it in our hometown. He put as much thought into learning a new trick as I put into solving a programming problem. He still doesn't like school. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinesthetic_learning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinesthetic_learning

mwattsun 5y ago
“Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” No substantive evidence exists suggesting Einstein made this statement...QI [quote investigator] has identified an influential essay called “An Educational Allegory” that was written under the pen name “Aesop, Jr.” and published in the “Journal of Education” in 1898. The author was later identified as Amos E. Dolbear of Tufts, a prominent physicist and inventor. The essay emphasized the absurdity of using a single inflexible standard for assessing the achievement of each individual student. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/04/06/fish-climb/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/04/06/fish-climb/