Good selection of comments re the recent NYT piece by @barbaraoakley. My own feeling is similar to @jamestanton’shttps://twitter.com/i/moments/1027325088528572416 …
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The half-life for the decay of those skills attained by practice of this sort is not long; typically a year or two suffices to efface them pretty completely. (Indeed, in many cases the half-life is best measured in weeks.)
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And once they have been effaced, the obvious question becomes: what was the point of all that practice?
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Ask any Harvard graduate who chose to major in anything other than the hard sciences how to integrate a rational function whose denominator has repeated roots. You will meet someone who studied this material sedulously, and has forgotten it all.
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