Intellectual apprenticeship: probably the only way to learn to think.
A personal account by @vgr https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2019/01/10/remembering-pierre-kabamba/ …pic.twitter.com/sgjcEB1fl3
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What you learn from a great teacher is a *style* of thinking. @vgr describes his mentor’s mode as “romantic engineering”:
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2019/01/10/remembering-pierre-kabamba/ …pic.twitter.com/FhPB3wblDc
I’ve been lucky to have had several great teachers—some now famous, others still obscure. I’m constantly tempted to write about what I learned from them, about how to think and feel and be, and how that depended on some dynamic of the relationship. Time is too short…pic.twitter.com/FnwQ8GnmpI
Do you happen to have any tips on how to find these types of mentors outside of an academic setting? I've had a few opportunities to learn from people and gain "stuff you can't teach" knowledge but it's always been very random
Yes, unfortunately it does usually seem to involve unstructured serendipity. I can’t think of any tips offhand. If it were more widely understood that teaching/learning is not mostly about transfer of information, maybe we’d develop better ways for teachers & students connecting
Do you think that people fall into certain buckets? As in, there are only so many conceptual paths to walk to get to an idea. I feel like unis could be utilizing this better, like many elementary schools do.
I don’t know. Education is a field about which I know little. What sorts of buckets do you have in mind?
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