On Jan 2, 2005, at 5:01 AM, Rosan Chow wrote:
> sorry, but i come to believe that talent, competence, intelligence,
> creativity, are results of learning, where i believe many others
> believe
> they are the cause of learning.
Rosan,
How have you come to believe that?
I suspect that nobody much thinks intelligence (however defined) or
talent (by pretty much any definition) are the -cause- of learning.
Various talents (I would include most definitions of intelligence in
that phrase) clearly have a great effect on patterns of learning
regardless of how the talents are formed. Do you disagree?
Do you really claim that all potentials are equally distributed at
birth? Is it possible that you are confusing unnoticed talents being
revealed late with some universally distributed talent?
Are you disagreeing that the operative question is, to the extent we
decide that talents are acquired, which talents can be learned to what
degree by which people at what time? (And to what degree specific
talents are required to do specific tasks in an excellent manner?)
Gunnar
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