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“It's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.”

Book:The phantom tollbooth

Work

The phantom tollbooth

In this classic children's book, Milo, a bored and uninterested boy, is transported into a magical realm where he encounters various characters and challenges. The story combines elements of fantasy, humor, and intellectual exploration, encouraging readers to think critically and enjoy the beauty of language and imagination. more

Author

Norton Juster

Norton Juster is an American author renowned for his children's literature. His most famous work, 'Charlotte's Web,' has been a beloved classic since its publication in 1952. Beyond children's literature, Juster has also ventured into adult fiction and poetry. more

“When a domain reaches a point where the knowledge for skillful professional practice cannot be acquired in a decade, more or less, then several adaptive developments are likely to occur. Specialization will usually increase (as it has, for example, in medicine), and practitioners will make increasing use of books and other external reference aids in their work. Architecture is a good example of a domain where much of the information a professional requires is stored in reference works, such as catalogues of available building materials, equipment, and components, and official building codes. No architect expects to keep all of this in his head or to design without frequent resort to these information sources. In fact architecture can almost be taken as a prototype for the process of design in a semantically rich task domain. The emerging design is itself incorporated in a set of external memory structures: sketches, floor plans, drawings of utility systems, and so on. At each stage in the design process, partial design reflected in these documents serves as a major stimulus suggesting to the designer what he should attend to next. This direction to new sub-goals permits in turn new information to be extracted from memory and reference sources and another step to be taken toward the development of the design.”

Learning Architecture Expertise Remembering Specialization Cognitive Science Information Organization

Book:The Sciences of the Artificial

Source: The Sciences of the Artificial

“In other words, start with what you know, and use a little guesswork, or common sense, or whatever you want to call it, to figure out what you don't know.”

Learning Common Sense Guesswork

Book:Learning All the Time

Source: Learning All the Time

“When you're not sure which of two or three methods to use, then try all of them on a simple problem and see which one gives you the answer that you know is right.”

Learning

Book:Learning All the Time

Source: Learning All the Time