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I think that’s a rare attitude though. Most engagement in these things is atemporal. Sports fandom sometimes acquires a bit of a sense of history, but not the studiously analytical kind.
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I bet if people had more words for talking about what they are interested in some really interesting enduring interests would emerge. Some interests have clearer paths to connect dots than others.
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This interest in study as opposed to shallow curiosity or drive-by interest is I think a big part of why cozyweb cultures have emerged and are stealing attention from public social media. The for eg is literally a set of study groups (explicitly labeled as such)
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I think group study is best done in a peer learning way. Teachers generally hurt, not help. But the idea of a tutor though..l good fit for study. Tutors help you study, teachers do something closer to providing air cover and efficient strategic knowledge bombing.
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Closest I came to “tutor” was advising a bunch of undergrad theses at Cornell as a postdoc. It’s different from grad-level advising and classroom teaching. US grad TA-ing is also not like real tutoring, even though the sessions are called tutorials.
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It’s funny that tutoring, test-prep, and study all have negative valences today due to assimilation into late modern hyper-competitive industrial workforce prep. Historically these patterns seem to have been the core of educational culture itself, not a steroid-like ancillary.
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There’s a weird tension here though. You need solitary study time too. Depending on the subject it may be the core. Solitary study is to group study what reverie/reflection is to solitary study. There is a stack of modes here.
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