You know, people do actually learn things at school and a place to practice skills that, in the real world, there's little opportunity to find and/or require taking on significant risk.
Yeah, one of my favorite things about them is that they're a risk-free creative environment when compared to school or work. It lets people get outside their comfort zones more.
Exactly. School's great for finding the unknown unknowns - a useful tool even if you're going to teach yourself everything outside of school regardless.
And that tells us that it's a general skill worth teaching in schools. Regardless of the profession a student ends up in, this skill is likely to be useful.
I think it's also the greatest tool for learning there is, so it's worth it to over come that tendency and develop discipline when using it for learning.
Yeah, and the point you make about satisfaction is important. If you're doing it for the satisfaction of learning and attaining some competence at it, that's time well spent I think.
I think that goes for lots of learning. When it's forced on someone else's schedule it's hard to enjoy, but when you're genuinely interested it's much more fun and productive.
While technically true my experience is that doing makes learning easier. Whether it's chemistry labs or running modified examples through a computer the process helps things click for me.
I agree, whole purpose of those learning is to improve thinking ability and problem solving skills, but it also intention of learner, which makes difference.
I agree, it is better for learning independent thinking and really might be closer to how one must learn in a workplace environment. There is the social and teamwork that might be missed a bit but also it teaches how to virtually be social and a team member. Again, more closely aligned with real-world type work where it is largely independent and you must learn to virtually communicate well to succeed. Many times clients are nowhere near you and all they know of you is a virtual representation.
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