By: Dave44000

Dave44000 — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:38:29 +0000

We learn. Then, we unlearn, and learn again. You don’t discredit, you build that a prior infrastructure that enabled you to get where you are today.
We are still taught Newtonian physics, because it teaches us how to be physicists. It gives us the mathematical sophistication to enable us to make metaphors across our ontologies. It makes the though experiments possible. It demonstrates how to walk a path to its conclusions long before the experimentation confirm those conclusions.
I went through this when I learned tango. It’s not just science. The pedagogy is taught and learned. That pedagogy granted confidence to a student just going through the conscious-unknowing stage of learning where fear lives. But, the pedagogy also constrains, so there comes a moment when, once they are confident, that they are asked to unlearn the pedagogy and learn the process in a different way, so the learning that was blocked can be achieved.
The Rubic’s Cube demonstrated the same. The need to achieve disorder on the way to a solution. The need to solve towards, away, and towards again.

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