Swimmer963 comments on Being a teacher - Less Wrong

51 Post author: Swimmer963 14 March 2011 08:03PM

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Comment author: Swimmer963 15 March 2011 10:13:28AM 6 points [-]

It does work eventually. If you tell kids enough times to move their arms, and prevent them from actually drowning, they figure it out by trial and error in the end. But that's not teaching.