[joshuahutt]

It's like...if "less is more," then "more is less."

Reminds me of a floating point number. The bigger or smaller they get, the less accurate they become.

If you're chunking on a ton of data and tasks, you're getting less out of it. At a certain point, none of it even seems to enter your brain at all.

[sslayer]

Basically, this is what college should be teaching you - how to research. What good does are useless facts? I don't want to walk around cluttered with a dictionary - I want to know where to look in that dictionary. Obviously in the sciences there are facts that you should know, but even with math, its more about how to derive the formula, than actually memorizing it. I mean, their called "Research Papers" right?

[joshuahutt]

Totally agree. I remember the phrase “learning how to think” being thrown around.

I also remember not being explicitly taught that.

It sort of seems like trying to find enlightenment by chopping wood and carrying water at a monastery.

If critical thinking is something that spontaneously emerges in a learning environment, maybe we shouldn’t sell it as a benefit. “Some students experience deep insight into the nature of the mind. Results not typical.”