RE: Education (Was Re: Techwriting After the Boom)

[John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com>]

Mark...I don't agree. I think what you mean by abstraction, I think of
extraction. I can teach something in the abstract without ever relating it
to a concrete.

Isn't that the whole idea behind any of the theoretical sciences? 

John Posada
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> John Posada wrote:
> 
> > However, don't put the cart first.
> >
> > Base the instruction on Abstract, but then reinforce it 
> with specific
> > example.
> 
> That's putting the cart first, John. Abstration is just that, 
> abstraction of
> common principles from concete examples. The best way to 
> teach abstract
> concepts is to begin with two or three concrete examples and 
> then draw out
> the abstraction that unites them. That is how we form 
> abstractions, and thus
> it is how we best learn them.

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