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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] Squirrelanna 23 points 11 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 11 months ago (1 children)

cultural osmosis

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

[–] Squirrelanna 2 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Right and now everything I learned is obsolete.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 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

[–] Squirrelanna 1 points 11 months ago

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