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Re:Khan Academy: It’s Different This Time by XLcommerce on Sunday February 05, 2012 @06:38PM (#3555665)
Not really. I would have though that: 'do it a lot and you'll get better at it' is fairly self evident. Obviously testing of some sort would help us to determine how much better one became.

I'd go so far as to say that it would be very difficult not to improve at something you were doing over a period of time.

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Re:Khan Academy: It’s Different This Time by wahnfrieden on Sunday February 05, 2012 @09:26PM (#3555954)
I think the point they're trying to make (through this admittedly condescending questioning) is that when the institution is fundamentally wrong, elongated experience can only pervert rather than further skills. Or f it does further, it is only furthering a perversion of some concept of what's right. I think there's a degree of truth to that but but it's oversimplifying a bit.
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