Vonsgardens

Seligman 75, huh? Is there a complete refrence? Or is this out of a thesis and quoted thusly? This should bring on a spathe of pseudointellectual babble about teaching methods and approaches from a psychosial perspective.

Nuts and bolts:
Beginner makes efforts, beginner is praised for efforts, efforts are really mediocre, but due to raise beginner thinks he/she knows craft, beginner makes same mistakes over and over, mediocre trees ensue and are presented as bonsai with "X number of years of trainng", Beginner makes same mistakes over X years, thus never really advances, even though viewed with awe in club is really still a beginner. It is a simple arithmetic issue, if realized experience is equal to 0, then years x experience would be X x 0=0, reagardless of the number of years attempted.

I trained graduate students (and a bunch of undergraduate research students)for a long time. I always tried to be the kindly mentor, but it was the kids who were challenged to improve, by deconstruction of their efforts, that succeeded the most by becoming the truly excellent and independent scholars.

I am going outside now to enjoy the sunshine and have great thoughts, or mediocre ones, here in Toulouse among les Pyrenees (no diacritical marks on my USA computer), on a fine late summer day in France.


John

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