Saturday, October 9, 2010

Galileo - What can be taught?

While reading the book "Eat that Frog" I came across the following quote:

Galileo - "You cannot teach a person something he does not already know; you can only bring what he does know to his awareness"

Even though its a bit difficult to digest  I felt this way many a times in classes. Most of learning(awareness in this case) can be broken down into small realizations. You do not realize this when you are young but after a certain age and experience this is clear. Either way I am mostly a self-learner so this quote is more dear to me than it might be for others :-)

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