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To: SkyDancer

Skinner used to say that learning can and should continue throughout life and referred to the joy of intellectual illumination as concepts became clear. And sure enough, that moment where the previous years algebra and all subsequent math learning just made sense was, as I recall, almost orgasmic. I’ve yearned to repeat that sensation but have fallen short in the following half century.


13 posted on 12/01/2012 2:45:55 PM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: gorush

Sometimes called an Epiphany. I’ve had that feeling several time while in flight training. All of a sudden something made sense. I did finally find about it by searching just his name.


19 posted on 12/01/2012 2:57:31 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church shows up at your funeral.)
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I was terrible at math until I got involved with a motorcycle race team that was made up of mostly automotive engineers. We would be discussing some mechanical function and suddenly I would realize how the math I had previously not understood applied to that function. Learning it out of a book didn't work for me.
23 posted on 12/01/2012 3:01:44 PM PST by CrazyIvan (Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
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