Posted on 10/13/2020 9:24:58 AM PDT by Zenyatta
Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett held up a blank notepad when Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) asked her to show the public the notes shes been using to answer the numerous questions spat at her during day two of the confirmation hearings.
Most of us have multiple notebooks and notes and books, things like that in front of us, said Sen. Cornyn (video below). Can you hold up what youve been referring to in answering our questions?
(Excerpt) Read more at dailywire.com ...
Different ways of learning.
If I read it I will remember it.
If I hear I am the proverbial, in one ear and out the other unless you are really interesting and the information is dense. In that case I will be taking notes, which I will then read and toss.
My eye brain connection is good, ear brain is dicey. Except for poetry. That I will hear and remember.
That is practically just like me.
I guess my mind was geared more to learning and retention that others my age, since I was raised alone by my grandfather out in a rural setting with bad TV reception..................
No point whatsoever. Just saying.
I was raised without a TV as well.
But lots and lots of books. My mom used to go to the used stores and buy every children's and non-fiction book she could find. We might have been poor but we were going to be educated if she had anything to say about it.
When I was 10 I read Mark Twain’s ‘Huckleberry Finn’, Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The Jungle Book’ (Disney hadn’t ruined it yet in the mid 60’s), Edgar Rice Burroughs’ ‘Tarzan of the Apes’, Jack London’s ‘The Call of the Wild’ and several more....................
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