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Probably throughout prehistory, when we were still evolving both biologically and culturally, most of the life skills, the skills required for both survival and pleasure, were passed along from one person to another, parent to child, or older child to younger child, or child to child as when one three year old invents a skill and passes it to another a few seconds or a few minutes or a few days later. Since this person to person, face to face, hand to hand process has been shrinking over recent generations as more people are self-taught or taught by technology, I'd like to hear about how skills are transmitted. Two quick examples: Last week I watched in a class of adults as someone spontaneously taught a rhythm to the person next to them by taking my way of teaching (steady alternation of hands) and separating the right hand pattern out as a rhythm of its own. If I name a rhythm after one of the kids, "Here's 'Sophie's Samba" --here's how she likes to do it." Then Sophie is eager to show someone else how it goes. Taking turns inventing rhythms evolves into all kinds of skill transmissions. What else is working for some teacher, or student, or student becoming a teacher? |
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