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To: Free in Texas

Right. Doing the work is how the skill is learned. Nothing is learned when a student punches numbers on a calculator. They get the results but have no understanding of the process needed to get the results. I teach adult ESL. I discourage the use of translators unless a student has no idea of what he is reading or needs to write.

The humorist Jean Shepherd once commented on a paint-by-number set that promised that the user would soon be painting beautiful masterpieces just like Michaelangelo’s. Yep, skip from A to Z without having to worry about talent or skill or real work.


28 posted on 05/18/2021 11:04:11 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

Reminds me of how people will buy all sorts of expensive equipment and costly supplies for something like photography or painting, then do hardly anything with them, because they think the talent should just magically appear.

As compared to those with some actual talent or ambition, who will sketch or doodle on any available surface with anything at hand.


60 posted on 05/18/2021 8:40:34 PM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress" )
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