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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You teach the currently relevant rules, vocabulary and literature while the students learn the rest through cultural osmosis. Like every one of us did.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

cultural osmosis

I like that term. Thanks for introducing me to it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Happy to help! And you can now say you learned about cultural osmosis through cultural osmosis!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Right and now everything I learned is obsolete.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

But when you were learning it, it allowed you to better understand the world around you

it changed over time and you learned and changed with it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

If that was even slightly true my comment would be unreadable to you.