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b_sharp5/12/2012 11:35:10 am PDT

re: #345 allegro

More like what to parrot. Thinking doesn’t enter into it.

If you preoccupy the mind with a task like memorization, it tends toward and internalizes that ability. Critical thinking skills, if not taught at the same time, will tend not to be internalized. The pathways, which can vary from tens of thousands to millions of connections, with the higher number of connections will be favoured over those with fewer.

It’s easy to see from this that once those pathways built by the memorization training will take over when critical analysis is attempted.

(I know, nobody really cares about this, but it clarifies my own thinking)