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- From: freier@mail.physics.utah.edu (rodney james freier)
- Subject: Re: Education crisis (was RE: how much math...)
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- References: <Bz3LvL.L4C@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1gac6gINNfeo@agate.berkeley.edu> <PRENER.92Dec12015805@prener.watson.ibm.com> <1hr5fjINN972@mirror.digex.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 02:40:15 GMT
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- In article <1hr5fjINN972@mirror.digex.com>, kfl@access.digex.com (Keith F. Lynch) writes:
- |> In article <PRENER.92Dec12015805@prener.watson.ibm.com> prener@watson.ibm.com (Dan Prener) writes:
- |> > Little kids learn much faster. ...
- |> > But the fact that little kids' learning capacity is so much greater
- |> > than that of older people ...
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- |> Is there any evidence for this? It goes against my experience.
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- |> Keith Lynch, kfl@access.digex.com
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- Well, I remember reading something. At about the third grade level,
- A child's brain goes thru and amazing growth spurt, and it literally doubles
- its number of neural connections. It seems there's evidence that if these
- new connections are not put to use (what that was supposed to mean, I don't know)
- soon after the growth stage, they probably will never be used.
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- Just a bunch of heresay, really.
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- Rod
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