Towards a Place for Study in a World of Instruction

This essay of 1971 is still very valuable to understand the import of p2p learning trends and tools.

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Toward a Place for Study in a World of Instruction,

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Like a number of the ancients, especially the stoical Seneca, Montaigne cautioned against reliance on teachers in the course of education. Passive knowing was less important than the work of finding out, and authoritative instruction simply put the youthful mind to rest. Teaching and learning might impart knowledge, whereas study led to understanding, whereby things known were made one's own and became a part of one's judgment, and "education, labor, and study aim only at forming that." (paragraph #6) In this 1970 paper, McClintock concluded that "digital technologies are now providing educators and students with tools of study, as opposed to tools of instruction" [2]