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- From: john@jlc.mv.com (John Leslie)
- Subject: Rereading 20 times (was: Branding kids)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.001401.13638@jlc.mv.com>
- Organization: John Leslie Consulting, Milford NH
- References: <C12AzC.MB1@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1jg9keINNlui@gap.caltech.edu> <1993Jan20.122231.21775@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 00:14:01 GMT
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- solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky) writes:
- > peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- >|> hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
- >|>
- >|> >Rereading that book 20
- >|> >times to try to understand something is unlikely to succeed.
- >|>
- >|> I dunno. It works for me.
- >
- >If this comprises learning then the learning environment leaves something
- >to be desired.
- >
- >Jason Solinsky
-
- Ohmigosh, two giants with one blow...
-
- Sorry, Herman and Jason, you're both wrong. (And if you don't mend
- your ways, Jason, you'll end up like Herman. ;^)
-
- All you have to do to understand that difficult book is re-read it
- concentrating on ten different questions. (It *will* go a lot faster
- if you get someone else to answer those questions, but you won't be
- learning as much.)
-
- Entirely too many students today are being taught, "If at first you
- don't succeed, change your major." This is just plain wrong. In real-
- world problem-solving, you don't "at first" succeed -- if you solve the
- problem after a month of chipping away at it, you're a success. If you
- do that consistently, you become your company's secret of success.
-
- After you get out of school, the ticket to success is the attitude
- that you're not going to *let* any problem defeat you. Your most
- effective problem-solving tool will be an ability to extract the
- necessary pieces of information from the book where you *know* they
- reside.
-
- P.S. I remain a fan of both Herman and Jason -- they're just wrong
- about this one thing...
-
- John Leslie <john@jlc.mv.com>
-