And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Years ago (2012) I saw a handwritten note someone had posted on a classroom door that said, "If you cheat in engineering classes, you WILL kill people later." A truism that can't be said too often.
Whether EVERYTHING is important or not depends on how much of it you already have embedded in your brain.
You said it! When everything is equally important, nothing is. You'll miss the unifying principal for the trivial ephemera. Bad students memorize everything and know nothing; good students learn the examples and know how to regurgitate them; great learners understand principles and apply them when relevant.
I've seen used college textbooks like that. Generally they are the products of dullards.
ReplyDeleteYears ago (2012) I saw a handwritten note someone had posted on a classroom door that said, "If you cheat in engineering classes, you WILL kill people later." A truism that can't be said too often.
ReplyDeleteWhether EVERYTHING is important or not depends on how much of it you already have embedded in your brain.
I've seen such text books, Might as well get highliter ink in a spray can.
ReplyDeleteIf you hitelight everything, then nothing is important.
I run a line of highlighter (or a regular pen) down the margin by the Very Important Paragraph.
You said it! When everything is equally important, nothing is. You'll miss the unifying principal for the trivial ephemera. Bad students memorize everything and know nothing; good students learn the examples and know how to regurgitate them; great learners understand principles and apply them when relevant.
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