QUOTE(Kwork @ Thu 10th February 2011, 1:18pm)
QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Sat 5th February 2011, 1:08am)
Being an old-fangled Peirce-James-Dewey pragmatist, I strongly believe in a life of learning by doing.
And what I see the Common 87% Man doing and learning in Wikiputia is more than anything else an unexamined life of moral and intellectual cowardice.
Whether it's by nature or by accident I don't really care, but I can hardly help but rejoice that any fraction of humanity is spared that manner of learning by doing.
Jon Awbrey
If its possible, you should put this up some of this over the entrance to the WR Meta Forum. It sums up a lot of important things with very few words.
Yeah, I got all e-couraged and x-cited for a moment there, because even Milton started e-spousing that “learning by doing†line, even if he seemed to think it was some kind of new-fangled notion, but that's okay, because the next think-to-do after that is to reflect on what yer actually doing, to realize that it's what yer really learning, and what yer really teaching others to e-mulate.
But he just as wikly scurried back under the cover of “Content Is All†(CIA), keep yer gnosis to the grimestone, and don't worry yer pretty little shaven head over the sound of tinkling glass and the smell of death all around you.
Jon (IMG:
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