QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Thu 10th February 2011, 12:04pm)
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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It's perfectly fine to
avoid learning by doing, but instead learn vicariously, when it comes to murder and mayhem. We try to teach with minimal damage. However, WP is not murder and mayhem. There are no actual shaven heads or actual killings there. All there are, are a bunch of conniving bastards who are out of control socially. They can't actually hurt you, as they are digital.
So-- it's exactly the kind of thing you should learn
by direct experience, as you wouldn't really believe it any other way, and direct experience isn't going to get you dead, or anybody else dead. And learning by direct experience is pretty hard to avoid, if you edit WP as an ordinary non-admin, and you happen to be a subject-matter-expert in the field in which you edit. Which is doubtless why Gardner avoids editing, and Jimbo never edits under a nom-de-plume (we saw what happened to his editing with Mzoli's). They're all avoiding learning-by-doing, like mad, because it would destroy the world-view and the lie they depend on. Because nobody can edit WP much as an expert, with no special protection, without learning viscerally that there's something very wrong with the place.
As for you, Jon-- you hypocrite-- you learned-by-doing YOURSELF. But NOW, you want people to just listen to the wisdom of Jon, and not do that. You do NOT want to have people figure out for themselves what the problems are. And when they do, all you do is laugh at them for being chronologically behind YOU. Like that really helps.
Your problem, Jon, is that you're a "learn by doing" SNOB.
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