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Subject:Re: Documents I'd like to see... From:bbachman -at- justicesystems -dot- com (Blaine Bachman) To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 18 Jul 2001 11:46:45 -0600
Dannette Thompson wrote:
>
> Oh, and one other thing....
> I think the reason so many users have a hard time with click-and-press
documentation is the way in which they were educated. Too many of our
school systems teach students to memorize and regurgitate, rather than
understand and apply. The skill of taking a set of directions and
understanding the concepts behind it, rather than just memorizing the
steps, is much more difficult to grasp. And much harder to teach.
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This is, I believe, why my kids stopped asking me for help with algebra
- they didn't want to listen to my explanation on how to do the process,
they just wanted to know how to get the answer to the problem in
question.
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