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It is the same for every school subject. Theory often bores students as they often have no clue on how it tranfers to real life. Moreover, they are given 6 to 8 hours of that stuff a day.
I know a guy who knew all grammar rules by heart. He could not get his University diploma because he did not meet the minimum language requirements. He got a private teacher and two days later he understood how to apply grammar rules to words in sentences. He got his diploma.
Too bad he had to go through so many shcool years thinking writing was such a difficult thing. Sometimes the line between getting it or not getting it is much much thinner than we think. IT TOOK TWO DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!! Can you believe it!
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From: GeneK [mailto:gene -at- genek -dot- com]
Sent: 9 juin, 2003 14:23
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: RE: Education (Was Re: Techwriting After the Boom)
No, it's merely the way the sciences are most commonly
taught, and why most people find them so dry. Science is
fundamentally an attempt to explain why things work the
way they do, and "theory" is how those explanations are
expressed when the things one is attempting to explain
can't be tested in practice. Teaching abstraction before
using extraction to provide context results in a lecture
hall full of dozing students. I mostly slept my way
through an entire semester of Modern Physics in the days
before Star Trek; today I know teenagers who actually
understand the basic concepts because they wanted to know
what the characters on the show were supposedly talking
about and went and looked the subjects up.
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