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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 97441" data-attributes="member: 126"><p>Re: Property Tax</p><p></p><p></p><p>A formal education at best exposes students to the basics, and how to learn. Verification that they mastered some curriculum is more to confirm that teaching and learning happened, not that they are now fully prepared for everything that life will throw at them. In high technology disciplines the course work may be obsolete by the time the students graduate, while the underlying laws of physics remain unchanged. </p><p></p><p>Practical learning usually benefits from the negative feedback of reality. Blatantly inefficient or ineffective practices will not be very successful. That said learning in a vacuum or from a mentor disseminating bad information, will not benefit from the collective wisdom passed down from previous generations. This human capacity to record knowledge often learned the hard way, into written records so they can pass it along to future generations is why we don't have to all start from zero every generation. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Bad teachers exist inside and outside formal education. We all find ourselves being mentored from time to time, and some mentors are better than others.</p><p></p><p>The high pressure fire hose of information that is the WWW can be a double-edged sword. The internet is full of tons of good information presented side by side with huge amounts of misinformation. Website forums do not have technical editors, but even technical editors do not prevent misinformation from creeping into popular articles. </p><p></p><p>Caveat Lector (caution reader) facts on the internet may be less true than they appear. </p><p></p><p>JR</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 97441, member: 126"] Re: Property Tax A formal education at best exposes students to the basics, and how to learn. Verification that they mastered some curriculum is more to confirm that teaching and learning happened, not that they are now fully prepared for everything that life will throw at them. In high technology disciplines the course work may be obsolete by the time the students graduate, while the underlying laws of physics remain unchanged. Practical learning usually benefits from the negative feedback of reality. Blatantly inefficient or ineffective practices will not be very successful. That said learning in a vacuum or from a mentor disseminating bad information, will not benefit from the collective wisdom passed down from previous generations. This human capacity to record knowledge often learned the hard way, into written records so they can pass it along to future generations is why we don't have to all start from zero every generation. Bad teachers exist inside and outside formal education. We all find ourselves being mentored from time to time, and some mentors are better than others. The high pressure fire hose of information that is the WWW can be a double-edged sword. The internet is full of tons of good information presented side by side with huge amounts of misinformation. Website forums do not have technical editors, but even technical editors do not prevent misinformation from creeping into popular articles. Caveat Lector (caution reader) facts on the internet may be less true than they appear. JR [/QUOTE]
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