by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I learned the wrong way. I learned. Is there a wrong way to learn?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Once in 7th grade, I was on a self-study path in a math class. I read a few pages, took a test, graded my test (usually a bad grade), read the correct answers, and, “Oh, that’s the answer. That is what we are doing here!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n The teacher saw me doing this and told me I was learning the wrong way. I was supposed to know the answers before taking the test. I was supposed to learn the material by reading a few pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I shrugged. The test grades were not recorded. The test grades were meaningless. So I learned from the tests, not the few poorly written pages I read before the test. And I learned. And the teacher kept telling me that I was learning the wrong way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Is there a wrong way to learn? I suppose there are some learning methods that are more efficient than others. Some learning methods may be less painful than others in real life. In school? Is there a wrong way to learn?<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a recent case, I asked a chatbot to write some Python code to (1) pull information from WordPress-generated XML then (2) pull information from an mbox (MS email) file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I looked at the code and learned that there are Python libraries for these two types of solutions. Oh, I learned about the libraries by reading the answer. Was that wrong? I don’t know. I do know that I learned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips I learned the wrong way. I learned. Is there a wrong way to learn? Once in 7th grade, I was on a self-study path in a math class. I read a few pages, took a test, graded my test (usually a bad grade), read the correct answers, and, “Oh, that’s the answer. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[394,51,20,102],"tags":[393,173,142,217],"class_list":["post-4403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternatives","category-choose","category-learning","category-teaching","tag-alternatives","tag-choose","tag-learning","tag-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4404,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403\/revisions\/4404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}