(December 18, 2013 at 5:42 am)pocaracas Wrote: Practice makes perfect!
That's why you get good at it some 4 years later...
Yes... I totally needed help learning an alphabet I already knew, learning mathematics that everyone already knew (and if they didn't yet, would shortly find out), and... I didn't learn to tie my shoes until I took it upon myself to do so when I was 18 or 19. And then I still wore slippers, because screw shoe-tying.
Everything you learn inside elementary school, you could learn in four days. Except the social day-care aspects of it... of course, not that that bit really did me any good (quite the opposite!).
I'm serious. Take some 10 year olds who haven't been taken to school through a 4 day crash course in beginning mathematics and language mechanics (assuming they actually speak the language they're learning about, otherwise it'll take a good bit more work), compare their ability to perform said mathematics with students who've been doing this since they were 4... and there will be minimal differences between their scores.
Sure, practice, memorization, and familiarity with subject matter can increase one's speed of delivery of said subject matter... but, and this is a big but (
) : the core understanding of the subject is all the human brain needs to arrive at the correct answers.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
