{"id":1048,"date":"2010-11-08T16:13:49","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T00:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jarrodhart.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/08\/learning\/"},"modified":"2010-11-08T16:13:49","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T00:13:49","slug":"learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/?p=1048","title":{"rendered":"Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems to me there are three elements to a good education:<br \/>\n1. A stimulating environment. In such an environment, everyone will learn furiously.<br \/>\n2. Selection. That is to say, the ratio of useful\/constructive things learned, vs useless\/wrong\/just plain destructive things we learn in the abovementioned stimulating environment.<br \/>\n3. No sugar coating. Nobody who learns only wholesome, proven, positive things will be well educated. An essential aspect of a good education is learning by error and embarrassment, loss, sorrow, breakage, cheating, lying and heartbreak.<\/p>\n<p>So because an education requires fault and deception, there cannot be a perfect education, only a more or less effective one for one&#8217;s environment&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems to me there are three elements to a good education: 1. A stimulating environment. In such an environment, everyone will learn furiously. 2. Selection. That is to say, the ratio of useful\/constructive things learned, vs useless\/wrong\/just plain destructive things we learn in the abovementioned stimulating environment. 3. No sugar coating. Nobody who learns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,24,26,28],"tags":[86,108,267,269],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}