----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Lewis"
That's true almost everywhere, Andy. The point I was trying to make is
that
here an inordinate umber of people WANT things formularised. They want to
know the axact date to put trees away for winter or bring them out in
spring; they want to knoe the precise proportions for soil to first branch
to apex; they want to know how to pronounce bonsai...
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I'd venture that this is because we Americans feel the illogical need to
understand what we're being taught - from an intellectual point of view. We
have to feel good about what we're digesting and "know" that it's worthwhile
(forget the fact that, since we lack the fundamental understanding in the
first place, that all of this is impossible). If we don't understand the
process, we fear and dislike it. If the teacher demands that we forget all
of that junk and just absorb the instruction and put it into practice
without question, we think that we're being duped or that we're being
"disrespected."

None of this has anything to do with learning, of course. But we like to
delude ourselves that it does. See, "we" know what's right and the teacher
does not. It's quite simple. ;-)

Kind regards,
Andy Rutledge
zone 8, Texas

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