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Critic at Large: Einstein’s views on the learning process are pure genius

Sunday, September 27, 2009

By Dan DiNicola

If you are interested in education, how students learn or what’s worth learning, I refer you to a child who once told his teacher, “I don’t see any point in memorizing dates, sir. One can always look them up in a book.”...

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