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> More work for the audience to imagine what is happening? Sure But this kind of 'work' is meaningless though. Books that contain a lot of typos/errors give s
by redthrow 12y ago
> More work for the audience to imagine what is happening? Sure
But this kind of 'work' is meaningless though.
Books that contain a lot of typos/errors give students a lot of 'work' to 'imagine' what's going on, but that kind of work/imagination don't have to exist if the quality material was produced in the first place.
- taeric 12y agoI feel we are shifting some metaphors here. The work I was referring to in that sentence was in the imagination of the audience during a theatrical performance. And I don't feel it is meaningless.
- dropit_sphere 12y agoYes, but it was Elon that did the shifting, and you that (unintentionally, I'm sure) took it too far. All Elon was trying to communicate was that centralization of production of cheaply replicable goods allows higher quality. If that applies to theater, explain that concept with reference to theater. If it doesn't apply to theater, throw it out for another metaphor.
- taeric 12y agoRight, I was trying to throw it out. Production value is surprisingly low in value when it comes to education. My children have learned more from scrap paper laying around the house than they have from books, at this point. (They are young, so not yet in the target of these efforts.) Basically, my assertion would be that no amount of production value will make up for experimentation done by the student.
- dropit_sphere 12y agoI see now, and this is a good point. But I'm not certain that production value is a single variable in this case---there's production value that encourages experimentation, and production value that discourages it.
- taeric 12y agoCertainly, I try and be careful not to make it sound like I have a solution here. Because I don't.