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Subject: Re: [9fans] how people learn things (was architectures)
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 15:25:33 +0000
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Laura Creighton wrote:
> But I have had a rather great advantage when studying how people learn
> things.  I had access to soldiers (and sailors, and airmen).  They can
> be _ordered_ to learn something.  Then you can watch how they do it.

Also, fear of the consequences of not learning can be a great
motivator.  I was on the staff of the U.S. Army Security Agency
Training Center & School in the early 1970s, and people who
didn't make the grade found themselves trying not to step on
pungee stakes in the rice paddies etc.