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From: dbc5390@acf5.NYU.EDU (David B. Chorlian)
Newsgroups: comp.society
Subject: Re: Learning Styles and Computers
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Date: 4 Apr 88 06:26:20 GMT
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I'm afraid that the desire to see the answers clearly laid out in
advance is one of the things that our educational systems engenders
in its students.  As a mathematics and sometimes science teacher in
high school, most students are extremely uncomfortable when I tell   
them that the question is just as or more important than the
answer.  After all, getting a good grade is just putting down the
right answer, and if I don't tell them right away, I must be 
torturing them in some obscure manner.  The computer is ideally
set up for exploratory learning, but the school isn't, despite the
pleas of educational reformers from Rousseau to Pappert.

David B. Chorlian