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Re:I asked my students to turn in their cell phones and writ... by will4274 on Friday December 27, 2019 @01:06PM (#21892970)
Humans are able to fill in the blanks on arguments that they already understand and do so implicitly without even noticing. So, if you make an argument the professor agrees with and is familiar with, you can skip steps, and the professor will still grok it. If your argument is novel or unfamiliar, missing steps appear as logical leaps, even though those same missing steps appear as extraneous detail to somebody already familiar with the argument.
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Re:I asked my students to turn in their cell phones and writ... by chinesempire on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @05:07PM (#21925113)
> If your argument is novel or unfamiliar

... you probably are a genius!

Students usually talk about things they don't know, understand or can relate to (yet).

Or, as Alan Kay put it

> Socrates didn't charge for "education" because when you are in business, the "customer starts to become right". Whereas in education, the customer is generally "not right"

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