YouTube Kids Has Videos on How Reptilians Rule the World, Moon Landing Was Fake

Gizmodo ^ | 03/17/18 | Tom McKay

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Start’em young...But hey at least he’s planting in their minds to question things..

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(First, I want to say THANK YOU for your responses and the informative debate. From you I learn.)

we’re usually talking about dummies thinking they are smart

Everyone believes they are smart. Dummies believe they are the smartest.

highly competent individuals may erroneously assume that tasks easy for them to perform are also easy for other people to perform

TRUE.

or that other people will have a similar understanding of subjects that they themselves are well-versed in.”

TRUE. Some even become intellectual snobs due to that belief.

Or there might be a difference between having the innate ability to learn, and being able to put it into practice.

Let me put it this way. There is NO LIMIT to what we CAN DO. The only limit is to what we WILL DO. Mostly it depends on what YOU WANT to do.

“There’s the library; go teach yourself geometry,” I wouldn’t have been able to do it. I’d have needed a teacher.

We ALL did. Some got good teachers, some did not. That is usually the difference in the outcome for any individual.

After the experience I describe as “learning how to learn,” I can teach myself anything that is not beyond my native intelligence.

Yet, you 'learned' to talk way before anyone taught you 'how to learn'. Correct ?

Smarter people can teach themselves things I can’t.

Believe it or not, no one can teach themselves anything. They can, however, learn. So can you. Everything you learn is something you didn't 'know' before. You learn something every second, every day of your life.

Maybe that’s a capability that you have always had, but I had to learn it.

Don't denigrate yourself that way. It's not true. I have no different capability than you. I have the capability to learn, I just don't always use it. Everyone, including you, has that as well.

As I said before, a good teacher is one who gets the student to WANT TO KNOW something. The human mind cannot be taught something it doesn't want to hear.

Sounds like you have someone who got you to want to know. The 'taught me how to learn' part was just giving you a method for pursuing what you wanted (or felt you needed) to know.