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Now, my son already knew what friction is … theoretically. But when he proudly demonstrated the prusik’s amazing arresting ability all that afternoon, he came to know friction more intensely, thoroughly and memorably. The best learning is always like this: not just an idea or principle encountered in isolation or argument, but a lesson earned in the constant stream of experience.The Principles of Psychology“Consciousness, then, does not appear to itself chopped up in bits.
Students who are trained and drilled in analysis, disassembling objects for study without the reparative work of synthesis, are in danger of developing a fragmentary intellect that fails to see the connections between things. Missing the forest for the trees you might say. Metaphor and analogy are examples of synthesis: Two unlike things are brought together to illuminate some truth. For example, “lion” and “heart” are just two nouns. One an animal, and one a body organ. But brought together to describe someone, they communicate attributes that neither one of them does on its own, and it communicates them more richly and memorably than an analytic effort to approximate “lionhearted” with other words like: brave, courageous, magnanimous, royal, fierce.
Not just topics but faculty too are sequestered from one another in separate departments. Even the physical environment of many schools reflects an emphasis on analysis rather than synthesis — the tools of each discipline are restricted to the room and time designated for that particular purpose. Music happens in the band room rather than the English class. Physicality happens in the gym rather than in history or geometry.
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