Experience is not the teacher
Posted on January 12th, 2010 by Brenna Phillips
We have all heard and even said “experience is the best teacher” a thousand times in our lives and careers. According to my new friend from Penn State University, Maryellen Weimer, experience is not a teacher. Read her post here.
“Teachers work to form and frame content in the interest of helping students learn it. Experience doesn’t do that. Learning from experience is like any other kind of learning—it takes effort and depends on focus, reflection, and practice. It never just happens….Only when dissonance or silence disturbs the melody do we think and learn.”
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