Re: IFETS-DISCUSS Digest - 29 May 1999 to 30 May 1999

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Mon, 31 May 1999 23:03:39 EDT

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From: WileyCCC@aol.com
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 23:03:39 EDT
Subject: Re: IFETS-DISCUSS Digest - 29 May 1999 to 30 May 1999

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In a message dated 5/31/99 11:25:30 AM, WKLEMM@cvm.tamu.edu writes:

<<A pigeon can memorize.>>

This is simply not true. Animals can only perceive and react. An animal can
be trained to react in the same manner given the same stimulus, but it ain't
memorization.

Memorization is an atrophied part of our education, once a key part of
rhetoric studies. It took the great memory skills of Matteo Ricci to work
his way up to advisor to the Chinese Emperor. I'd like to see a pigeon do
that.

John Spiers
MA Ed Admin

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