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To: John Carragher who wrote (193177)	1/17/2007 5:26:09 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793964

John, I think you are mixing up learning things with ability to think things. Of course, one can't think anything without having knowledge to think about, but one can't think things, merely because one has knowledge. "Education" is just learning a whole lot of things, including some methods of doing things. An example of knowing a lot of things, without much ability to think, is Google. Google knows a LOT of things, and does a reasonable job of thinking associatively. But it's not very good on the thinking process and has lots of other limitations too. If you get a child without much of the g stuff, you can teach them all you like and they won't be inventing CDMA, or relativity theory, or even planning a good bus transport system. A cruel lie inflicted on young people is that if they would only work hard, they too could be intellectual. It's not true and it's evil to lie to young people [and anyone really but at least adults have broader experience, maturity and are more discerning]. Tormenting them with "education" only to eventually tell them they have failed anyway, is nasty and leaves them not knowing what the hell to do next. It also wastes years of their lives when they have got NO years available to waste. They need every year they get. What education should do is help young people find useful activities within their abilities, and to develop interest in doing such useful things. What it should NOT do is teach people that they are failures in life. Contrary to popular rumour, we don't learn from our mistakes. In fact, we learn from our successes. Young people should be helped to succeed, time after time after time. Failure is a very negative learning process which only tells the person what NOT to do. It doesn't teach them what to do. Mqurice