tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258082.post2649927165191128322..comments2024-01-12T08:44:54.145+00:00Comments on While looking for something else...: On instrumental learning (pardon the digressive memoir)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258082.post-88116952720633156552012-09-06T16:24:30.502+01:002012-09-06T16:24:30.502+01:00“Happiness is the perpetual possession of being we...<i>“Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.”</i> -Jonathan SwiftJim Hamlynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16488331333061422244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258082.post-67540533009341086192012-09-03T21:55:02.949+01:002012-09-03T21:55:02.949+01:00Very interesting - I wrote about the suspension o...Very interesting - I wrote about the suspension of disbelief today too (how it may be essential to the enjoyment of fiction but detrimental to the identification of truths). <br /><br />Critical distance can be a real killjoy sometimes can't it? and definitely pollutes the enjoyment that many students bring to their studies? Is it a failure though if students leave education with less passion for their subject than they had when they started? I’ve claimed so in the past but I’m no longer so sure - John Stuart Mill presumably didn't think so:<br /><br /><i>“It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question.”</i><br />Jim Hamlynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16488331333061422244noreply@blogger.com