The longer I spend apart from formal education as a context, the more alien and intractable it strikes me. Talking with a thoughtful science teacher today, I could only (uselessly) answer his earnest questions with variations on "…but that won't work without an authentic need…"
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I'm sort of amused at my assumed helplessness? I've gone from being very excited about trying to help to now finding the whole situation impossible and aversive. Oops! Maybe I'll find some way to swing back someday…
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Part of what makes this situation so disorienting is that most people automatically situate my current work (memory systems) in formal educational settings, while my interest is in the opposite! AFAICT such contexts are usually quite poorly suited to these systems.
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Can you elaborate on this? I'm having a hard time understanding what you're trying to say here.
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I’d also find an indicative use case or question useful for more context, thanks!
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Doing a PhD has ruined my ability to learn things that aren't properly motivated / contextualized. Unsure if that's good or bad.
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I've *never* had this ability. Sucked during formal education, but I (think) I turned out okay...
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I know exactly where you are. I found the formal educational system bazaar from preschool through post graduate PhD level.