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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

There’s a common misconception about how learning works, about what knowledge •is•. In this misconceived metaphor:

- the mind is a container,
- knowledge consists of items (or maybe a substance) in this container, and
- learning consists of transferring those items from the mind-container of the teacher into the mind-container of the student.

This is wrong — knowledge doesn’t work this way, learning doesn’t work this way, brains don’t work this way — but we constantly fall into the trap of imagining that this is reality.

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