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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (48167)	5/24/2002 2:42:58 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

>>You're right. Research and learning are easier of you know something about the subject. But I still think that, in the process of going through life, it's more important to be able to think clearly than to have information. In this environment, that is<< unfortunately, there is a lot of dis-information out there too...most notably in the political realm. so i think one has to use a bit of deductive logic to arrive at sound conclusions.

To: Lane3 who wrote (48167)	5/24/2002 3:11:07 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 82486

It is useful to know the date of the Louisiana Purchase, at least approximately, to know that suddenly the United States doubled in territory within about 20 years of its founding. It is useful to know that Thomas Jefferson bought the territory, because it conflicted with his professed beliefs about a weak executive, and therefore showed that one should take some of his pronunciamentoes with a grain of salt. It is useful to know that we bought it from France because it can help explain the prevalence of French place names in the Middle West, and the reason that there are Cajuns in Louisiana. Some things are more important than others to know. But I have heard people make the most preposterous mistakes, and be vulnerable to the most absurd claims, because they had no internal "plausibility meter", which depends on having a reasonable amount of facts stored away........

To: Lane3 who wrote (48167)	5/24/2002 7:09:07 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

There is a neat model of learning called "degrees of learning"- the bottom level is the affective level- with feelings and environment, that is the level where you make students feel comfortable, and secure and liked. Then you get to the level of teaching facts. That is the level of wrote learning. After that you get to the level of refining and extending knowledge. This is the level where you use what you have learned by wrote, and apply it to other things. At the highest level you have "Habits of the Mind"- which is, I think, what Neo is talking about. At this level you abstract principles about the world, about how knowledge works, how we think, you think ABOUT thinking, at this level. ALl the other levels are necessary before you get to "Habits of the Mind"- which is why it is difficult to get there. There is another way to look a this- which is "things to be familiar with" (dates, names from history, etc), "Useful to know", (how to find areas, how to estimate your shopping bill) and the most important thing is called the "enduring value". There are many more ways to look at knowledge, but I like those two.