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Petter comments on Learning Mathematics in Context - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Petter 30 January 2016 11:48:34AM 1 point [-]

I'm convinced that humans must spike their blood sugar and/or pump their body full of stimulants such as caffeine in order to get past the natural tendency to find it unbearably dull to memorize words and syntax by rote and lifeless connection with the structures in their native language.

Just a comment: This is certainly not true for every human. Some people really enjoy that.