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Apprenticeship online - by Henrik Karlsson

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The fundamental learning situation is one in which a person learns by helping someone who really knows what he is doing. – Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language Human beings are evolved to pick up the skills that are practiced in the communities they live immersed in.

The fundamental learning situation is one in which a person learns by helping someone who really knows what he is doing. – Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language Human beings are evolved to pick up the skills that are practiced in the communities they live immersed in. If that statement is correct, or at least a good first approximation of the truth, the aim of education is to make sure as many people as possible can immerse themselves in skillful communities. We should, as far as possible, extract learners out of schools – where the incompetent live surrounded by, and therefore…

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