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The Smith-Rogers Error

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Tricking yourself into learning and doing

The Smith-Rogers Error Tricking yourself into learning and doing Michael Marshall Smith Mar 04, 2023 62 63 Share Photo © Henri Prestes — more coming soon. When I was a young boy at school we had a French teacher called Mr. Draper. Every week there would be a vocab test in which we had to prove an understanding of what twenty words meant, along with their gender. I can’t remember what the penalty for failing was, but it was sufficiently uncool that to some of us it seemed worthwhile to take up the insurance policy Draper offered: if we came to him before the test with the words written out by h

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