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ERIC Number: EJ356954
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1987
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If Education is a Feast, Why Do We Restrict the Menu?: A Critique of Pedagogical Metaphors.
Gregory, Marshall
College Teaching, v35 n3 p101-06 Sum 1987
Memory is the primary mechanism of modern education. Despite memory's importance in other ways, it is not the primary tool for solving problems, making theories or plotting courses of action. Students should be taught how to separate trivial from important information by using critical judgments, ethical standards, and logic. (MLW)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Educational Change, General Education, Higher Education, Humanities, Individual Development, Information Storage, Knowledge Level, Learning Processes, Liberal Arts, Memory, Metaphors, Problem Solving
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Audience: Practitioners
Language: English
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Identifiers: Socrates