[MUD-Dev] Re: Administrative notes
Fraser McCormick
9636325 at arran.sms.ed.ac.uk
Thu May 29 16:04:11 CEST 1997
> > > My problem is that it doesn't work that way. I can throw balls in the air
> > > until my arm falls off without getting in the least better at juggling. Skills
>
> > Heh...here you are wrong. I picked that example because that is *exactly*
> > how I learned to juggle.
>
> In that case perhaps juggling is a wrong example. I still belief you can
> learn only so much of something by just doing it. You make far better,
> and bigger, progress when you have somebody around explaining how to do
> it (and why, and showing you).
>
Perhaps a way to do this would be to make it possible to learn
without a teacher, butif taught it is a lot easier to learn (up to
the teachers own skill level, or some fraction of it). How much
easier it would be would depend on how good the teacher is.
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The question isn't whether I'm paranoid,
it's whether I'm paranoid enough.
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