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>From: hrm@engr.ucf.edu (Harley Myler)
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Subject: Re: Mean thoughts on what meaning means(Papert's principle)
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Date: 19 May 92 21:38:42 GMT
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>This is what Minsky refers to as "Papert's Principle" in his _Society of
 
>Mind_, namely that "some of the most crucial steps in mental growth are  
>based not simply on aquiring new skills, but on acquiring new  
>administrative ways to use what one already knows".  Now, if we could
only  
>figure out what "administrative ways"  MEANS, we could really get  
>somewhere. ;^)

Didn't Einstein say "Never memorize anything that you can look up in a
book"? This hits to the core of acquiring new administrative ways--it is
more important to know how to find a fact than to store the fact. Don't
take the "what one already knows" too literally, it does not mean to stop
learning. Learn to learn more efficiently.

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