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To: Joe S Pack who wrote (25595)	11/21/2002 12:15:34 AM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (2) of 74559

Didn't 'study'... but know something of it. It is one of those wonderful teachings many here would deride as 'one of those religions'. I have recently had an interesting conversation with a doctor of neurology who was telling me that brain function is actually much more suited to broad generalities or outright memorization rather than having to work through problems intellectually time and again in 'loops'. For instance children < 9 really are better off with 'rules without explanation' than explanations that they have to work over and over in their heads. He believes that phonics, for example, is actually a big negative for the 1000 most used words [something like 80% of written words for grade school] which should simply be memorized, and not 'figured out' each time the child comes across them. Very interesting implications for brain function in the Western world vs a native American culture for example... simple metaphores guide life in the latter where practically everything seen or experienced by the westerner takes on a whole circle of intellectual labeling, categorization, related news events, and other mental relations for the mind to grab onto and massage. DAK

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