From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Laura Creighton <lac@cd.chalmers.se>
Message-Id: <200106121541.RAA29551@boris.cd.chalmers.se>
To: cross@math.psu.edu
Cc: 9fans@cse.psu.edu, lac@cd.chalmers.se
Subject: [9fans] How do you teach people to think
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 17:41:04 +0200
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One way is to stick large amounts geometry and other reasoning type
math tasks down the throats of 10-13 year olds.  Hours of extra work
every day.  Pack it in until they are exhausted and demand something
that is real hard physical exercise.  That was my father's recipe for
me.  Worked great as far as I can tell.

I have had a certain amount of success with simply telling people that
`i expect you to do a certain amount of thinking' ... and then refusing
to do their thinking for them. In other words, actually expecting it.

Laura