= 27d567bc2d48d9f40e9ccc20ea370b15)
gjm comments on Education as Entertainment and the Downfall of LessWrong - Less Wrong Discussion
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
= 783df68a0f980790206b9ea87794c5b6)
Loading…= b715d02e85f7b3b4ae65ca3d3e450868)
Subscribe to RSS Feed
Powered by Reddit
= f037147d6e6c911a85753b9abdedda8d)
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
Comments (30)
Your point about TED talks is valid, but I feel you're defining "learning" way too narrowly.
Imagine a 12-year-old city boy who spent a couple of summer months in his grandparents' cottage in the woods. Exploring forests, figuring our relationships with the local kids, fishing, swimming, etc. Did he learn much that can be expressed as "a one-sentence summary" and was directly applicable to his city life? No, not really. Did he learn much? Yes, he did.
I think that "diffused" learning which involves acquiring experience and understanding contexts is very important. But then, I'm a fox :-)
I very much agree, but it seems to me that such learning as LW offers (or could offer) is much more of the explicit theoretically-summarizable kind than the implicit ineffable life-experience kind.
Fair point, though I'd like to add that even the "explicit kind" often needs a lot of context.