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Intellectually it is easy to grasp all the subtlety of the movie; and this is just the problem. It is clear what reactions Rossellini hopes to evoke, but the viewer can only say to himself mechanically "now I'm supposed to feel pity, now fear, etc." and most of the time winds up feeling nothing...
...answered with a yes or no." Young children jump immediately to the "closed stage" of a hypothesis: "Was it a boy in the car and his mother was rushing him to the doctor because he cut his finger and the car went off the road?" The young do not grasp problem-solving as a process of elimination. "Cognitive simplicity is a virtue of maturity," says Bruner. Only as they grow older do they ask "open hypothesis" questions: "Was it night? Was the driver tired? Was it raining?" Then they zero in on the answer...
...recognizes and studies the limitations that immaturity puts on learning. According to Switzerland's Jean Piaget, top scholar on the subject, the toddler is an egocentric who understands things only in terms of what he does about them ("A hole is to dig"). A five-year-old cannot grasp the principle of the conservation of quantity; he thinks that a piece of clay becomes "bigger" when it is flattened. The idea of transitivity eludes seven-year-olds, who cannot understand the statement: "A is bigger than B, and B is bigger than C, means that A is bigger than...
...overwhelming contributor to our common victory be unduly imprinted on their minds, and may this not lead them into a mood which will raise grave and formidable difficulties in the future? We should march as far east into Germany as possible, and that should Berlin be in our grasp we should take...
Seeing Fractions. Reversing the old order of math learning, Begle's books start with particular examples that awaken students to axioms or generalizations. The chief aim is a firm grasp of "real numbers," which form the central number system of mathematics. One early discovery is the semantic difference between a number and a numeral. The first is a permanent concept, the other, one of its many aliases. The idea of 9, for example, can be expressed equally well...