Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> >   It probably is indeed a big problem that some people seem incapable of
> > seeing the big picture, the generic rules behind the specific examples,
> > when dealing with certain subjects. They only see (and often memorize)
> > the individual examples, but are incapable of making the connection to
> > a more abstract, more generic rule behind them.

> I find it problematic that a great number of subjects in school are taught 
> this way, too. "Here's 30 examples. See if you can deduce what we're trying 
> to teach you by showing these things."  Possibly because the teacher himself 
> can't verbalize what he's trying to teach.

> Even math classes do this sometimes.

  Can it be that even some elementary school math teachers don't themselves
fully understand the generic rules, and instead just blindly repeat the
examples of the textbooks?

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                                                          - Warp

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