In Reply to: Re: Oh my... posted by Perry on November 03, 2005 at 20:30:20:
"Learn how to learn" is an interesting expression. It doesn't mean the same thing as "learn how to think." I'd say that quite a few kids who grew up in TFI learned how to learn, because many of them went on to higher education after leaving. They knew how to memorize, concentrate and discipline their minds. These same young people didn't learn how to think, however, until they went back to school where they were free to question authority, inquire into previously forbidden subjects at will, and gain wider exposure to abstract thought processes (e.g., scientific method, literary criticism, comparative historical analysis, math theorems, etc.)