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Re: Q. Where is the USA? A. You are standing on it!
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 21 Nov 2002 22:15:29 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Frank Filz writes:
> > What I would rather see though is something which could evaluate the
> > ability of people to learn and research. The actual learning I got from
> > college is mostly useless, but what was important was learning how to
> > learn and research.
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> That is a fantastic observation! By the end of my fourth semester (my gen
> eds) I realized that, with the exception of one course, I'd learned nothing
> but bits of trivia. The exception class was a course in critical thinking,
> which I still believe to have been my overall best course.
I guess it also depends on what you're learning-- I get the sense (From
other people I know in the field) that things like Biochemistry and Medicine
are a little more fact-oriented than method-oriented. Unlike (in my case)
computer programming, where what's more important is to learn how to break
problems down and solve them algorithmically, rather than learn a particular
language or set of commands...
DaveE
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