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JoshuaFox comments on A Quick and Dirty Survey: Textbook Learning - Less Wrong Discussion

7 Post author: AmagicalFishy 10 March 2013 07:55PM

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Comment author: JoshuaFox 10 March 2013 08:59:39PM 4 points [-]

taken me hours upon hours upon hours of combined work.

There's a reason that good college programs are said to require many hours of homework. Real skills, as in math and language, can only be gained by practice, although you can acquire "background-knowledge" level of a field with mere reading.