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- From: osan@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (Mr. X)
- Subject: Re: Education crisis (was RE: how much math...)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.003928.20934@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- Organization: Twilight Zone
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 00:39:28 GMT
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- In article <1hr5fjINN972@mirror.digex.com> kfl@access.digex.com (Keith F. Lynch) writes:
- >In article <PRENER.92Dec12015805@prener.watson.ibm.com> prener@watson.ibm.com (Dan Prener) writes:
- >> Little kids learn much faster. ...
- >> But the fact that little kids' learning capacity is so much greater
- >> than that of older people ...
- >
- >Is there any evidence for this? It goes against my experience.
-
- I think there may be some truth to the statement, however I also
- feel it may be exagerrated quite a bit.
-
- I don't think that a child is inherently more able to learn than an
- adult, from the point of cognition. Indeed, it may well be the other
- way around. However, children may have less internal interference
- to distract them, i.e. less in the way of noise... like paying the
- mortgage, finding your wife in bed with your best friend and a life
- time of things like these that tend to preoccupy the minds adults to
- the effective detriment of their ability to learn, in some cases.
- Compound this with years of too much booze, smoking, LSD, marginal
- sex, etc. and you may have some physical basis for reduced learning
- ability.
-
- In support of this theory I invite you to check out children that
- have been severely abused. Their levels of internal noise are
- higher than normally found in kids and sure enough you see lots of
- problems in such children with learning.
-
- What thinks y`all?
-
- -Andy V.
-