Norene wrote:
<<Were you just challenging me to check out some research before I threw
I don't think you are remembering the conversation accurately. I would never
say that emotional response was not important for learning. I did say that
love of the subject, while wonderful, is rare and not necessary for
learning. In fact, we learn all kinds of irrelevant and harmful things all
the time without loving them.
around ideas? I'll file that meme with the others.>>
<< So do I have to live
in this kind of witty state of self-consciousness, always one step
removed from what I'm really thinking in order to understand what I'm
really thinking and why I'm thinking it? You tell me. >>
No, you don't have to.
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