Joe Beckmann (joeb@oekos.org)
Wed, 2 Jun 1999 09:12:27 -0700
From: "Joe Beckmann" <joeb@oekos.org> Subject: RE: IFETS-DISCUSS Digest - 31 May 1999 to 1 Jun 1999 Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 09:12:27 -0700
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Maybe you can get through your Ed.D. orals through memorization, but the
better ones require thought. Maybe the Chinese Emperor would have been
better served by somebody who thought than by somebody who remembered, and,
perhaps, that's why there is no more a Chinese Emperor.
Joe Beckmann
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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