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Re:Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Learned Before Teaching Differen... by Folcon on Monday November 13, 2023 @12:51PM (#38252956)
You seem to have a very individualistic notion of education.

Even at the research level we are not independent islands of learning and discovery. People collaborate, some pickup certain concepts better than others and vice versa. So we teach and aid each other.

It seems you're firmly against this notion? Or if not please clarify your position?

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Re:Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Learned Before Teaching Differen... by mnl on Monday November 13, 2023 @01:13PM (#38253211)
I mentioned peer learning, collaboration is that.

I think everyone should be capable of working alone as well, and that has been the general assumption around as far as I've noticed. Of course collaboration is usually way more productive and also unavoidable.

But we were talking about education. Theses are individual for a reason.

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