Posted by Ron H on February 12, 2008
The most influential person in my life is my grandfather. When I was a child, he tried to teach me many things without actually coming out and saying what I should be learning. Perhaps he wanted me to find the truth for myself in most things and to avoid the tendency to make broad assumptions; I believe my early education about “gooney birds” is evidence of this. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Ron H on December 3, 2007
It has been suggested that it is a child’s method of learning to ‘explore first, and understand later’. This is to infer that children go about the things that interest them without much knowledge of what they are doing, and observe the results through trial and error. Eventually, by invoking cause, and observing the effect, the child can make deductions about those observations, which are then stored away as experience. I might not be so inclined to believe this theory if I weren’t able to recall this kind of behavior from my own childhood.
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