Comments on: Repetition is good…

By: Chris Gale

Tue, 28 Apr 2015 22:30:25 +0000

The academy have forgotten that they do not control the libraries — not in the public system, nor the internet, nor what is in the stacks.

Truth will out. Eventually.

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By: Looking Glass

Tue, 28 Apr 2015 21:58:22 +0000

I made some attempts to find that type of teaching when I was young, but it simply wasn’t available. Amazingly, it’s now easier to do classic training because of the Internet. Funny that.

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By: Chris Gale

Tue, 28 Apr 2015 10:05:50 +0000

Ah, yes: I was one of the last who had to learn Latin declensions and read their Caesar in the original.

This bunch have climbed up the ivory tower, smashed the stairs behind them, and not even left a rope.

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By: Looking Glass

Tue, 28 Apr 2015 08:37:31 +0000

The “ancients”, as in the education system during the 19th century for the middle & upper classes, understood it all pretty well: you have to memorize & trust the axioms (or the fundamentals), and learn to understand the advanced topics with building blocks you gained from the early memorization efforts.

Somehow this system worked for, oh, around 2000 years from when it was developed during Ancient Greece, or even earlier. But, no, we needed mass indoctrination systems (based off the Prussian Military School system) to take over. Because it’s first purpose was to remove God from our lives. It’s been wildly effective at that.

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