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are any of these criticims backed by evidence? Rote memorization is one of the, if not the most important backbone of excellence in any discipline. Pianists pla

are any of these criticims backed by evidence? Rote memorization is one of the, if not the most important backbone of excellence in any discipline. Pianists play scales, chess players memorize and repeat, athletes do the same, virtually any excellent programmer I've met shares one trait, they program a lot. frontal teaching to large audiences isn't dehumanizing, it's simply effective reflected empirically by the large amounts of excellent graduates coming out of countries that focus heavily on that style of teaching. I've never met a world class mathematician coming from a hippie waldorf school, I've met plenty coming out of the Soviet education system.

mschuster91 4y ago
> Pianists play scales, chess players memorize and repeat, athletes do the same, virtually any excellent programmer I've met shares one trait, they program a lot. They practice applying the knowledge. > frontal teaching to large audiences isn't dehumanizing, it's simply effective reflected empirically by the large amounts of excellent graduates coming out of countries that focus heavily on that style of teaching. LOL have you ever had the fortune of dealing with these "excellent graduates" in offshoring projects? As soon as you go one tiny step beyond what they were taught in "university" shit gets nasty. Applying abstract knowledge to a specific use case is what is important in IT, and those who never had to actually understand the topic fail miserably.
- Barrin92 4y ago
  Almost all knowledge is tacit, there's no clear line between applying and learning, it's a feedback loop. In fact obsession with abstract knowledge has always been weird to me. How far does reading about swimming get you? The offshoring thing is literally just about that. The nastiness and cultural mismatch of that industry. The huge Chinese and Indian domestic tech industries show that they can build successful things, just not necessarily for foreign markets.

mschuster91 4y ago

> Pianists play scales, chess players memorize and repeat, athletes do the same, virtually any excellent programmer I've met shares one trait, they program a lot. They practice applying the knowledge. > frontal teaching to large audiences isn't dehumanizing, it's simply effective reflected empirically by the large amounts of excellent graduates coming out of countries that focus heavily on that style of teaching. LOL have you ever had the fortune of dealing with these "excellent graduates" in offshoring projects? As soon as you go one tiny step beyond what they were taught in "university" shit gets nasty. Applying abstract knowledge to a specific use case is what is important in IT, and those who never had to actually understand the topic fail miserably.

Barrin92 4y ago
Almost all knowledge is tacit, there's no clear line between applying and learning, it's a feedback loop. In fact obsession with abstract knowledge has always been weird to me. How far does reading about swimming get you? The offshoring thing is literally just about that. The nastiness and cultural mismatch of that industry. The huge Chinese and Indian domestic tech industries show that they can build successful things, just not necessarily for foreign markets.