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conceptual thinking is a road block to creativity
inez	07-31-2007 20:02:04
Member Posts: 63 Joined: 03-03-2007	While infants acquire skills by imitation and trial and error, in our formal instruction we start with rules. The rules, however, seem to give way to more flexible responses as we become skilled. We should therefore be suspicious of the cognitivist assumption that, as we become experts, our rules become unconscious. Indeed, our experience suggests that rules are like training wheels. We may need such aids when learning to ride a bicycle, but we must eventually set them aside if we are to become skilled cyclists. To assume that the rules we once consciously followed become unconscious is like assuming that, when we finally learn to ride a bike, the training wheels that were required for us to be able to ride in the first place must have become invisible. The actual phenomenon suggests that to become experts we must switch from detached rule-following to a more involved and situation-specific way of coping. Indeed, if learners feel that they can act only if they have reasons to guide them, this attitude will stunt their skill acquisition.

suntacsys	08-03-2007 10:58:53
Member Posts: 1135 Joined: --	,,, now i know how wannabe gets his headaches :-) yic-yac

wannabe	08-03-2007 18:29:14
Member Posts: 6 Joined: 07-23-2007	amen brother!

mississippi	09-27-2007 17:27:38
Member Posts: 525 Joined: --	Inez you're an accomplished poet.