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  1. Hi,
  2. my name is Rebecca Wayland and this is my book review
  3. of the Book of learning and forgetting by frank smith.
  4. So first is a brief summary about the book
  5. and
  6. I just said this book by frank smith is about two different theories of learning.
  7. The modern day theory based on systematic learning
  8. versus the theory
  9. smith believes to be true,
  10. which is based mainly on tactic learning and tactic learning
  11. is students being able to learn from the environment.
  12. So,
  13. um,
  14. these theories are called the classical view in the official theory.
  15. So next are the five main points of the book.
  16. These points are based on
  17. the reasons
  18. why smith believes the classical theory or classical view is
  19. more efficient
  20. and successful
  21. and in education
  22. setting. So
  23. the first point is efficiency and education is important.
  24. The second point is encouraging students encourage students,
  25. they are capable of wearing.
  26. The third point is to be aware of problems in the
  27. current education system and be open to changing your mindset.
  28. The 4th 4th point is collaboration is one of the most important factors in education
  29. and finally, students need to know the truth about their realities
  30. of their education.
  31. So next we'll go into the five best quotes of the book.
  32. In my opinion.
  33. The first one was, we learned effortlessly every moment of our waking lives,
  34. I found this quote to be very important
  35. because when I think of education and learning,
  36. I don't think of effortless,
  37. but using that word just shows how much smith believes
  38. that the classical view is
  39. efficient and successful.
  40. The second quote that I chose was you learned from the company you keep.
  41. We all know this and organize our lives accordingly.
  42. I found a civil and probably were saying every language I've encountered
  43. and I think this is really important because
  44. I've heard going up,
  45. that's saying you went from the company you keep.
  46. Um I remember my mom telling me that all the time and I just
  47. think it's crazy and so powerful that every language he's intolerant has a similar
  48. proverb and
  49. it just shows
  50. how much that really does make an impact on
  51. someone's life and their education.
  52. Uh
  53. the third one was if we have learned that we can't do
  54. certain things that we are not a certain kind of person,
  55. they won't succeed no matter how much energy we
  56. expand on how much other people exhort us.
  57. So this quote just really shows how
  58. smith believed that
  59. we are capable of
  60. how much we think we are capable of.
  61. And our education really depends on that.
  62. So if we think that we are capable of learning something, we will learn.
  63. If we're capable of
  64. reading to a certain level, we'll breed to that level.
  65. Um,
  66. so that's why I thought that that
  67. was super important to the overall
  68. point of the book.
  69. Next
  70. would be how could anyone make comparisons on any
  71. aspect of learning when people are so different,
  72. especially in two things that make learning
  73. possible for anyone according to the classic,
  74. classic point of view interest in past experience.
  75. So again, this kind of goes with the previous quote, but
  76. it just shows like everyone is different,
  77. everyone learns differently and has different assets.
  78. So it's not fair to try and teach people the
  79. same exact way and expect them to learn and comprehend it
  80. um to the same degree.
  81. And
  82. the last quote I chose was you also don't need a
  83. test to discover if someone is learning a particular thing,
  84. just look at what the individual is doing, they are learning through experience.
  85. Again,
  86. this just goes to the fact that smith
  87. really believed that learning is done through experience.
  88. It's not done through
  89. testing and
  90. controlled environment.
  91. And so I just thought that was really powerful.
  92. The image to the left is an illustration of
  93. that quote you learn from the company you keep.
  94. It's just showing how
  95. each child in each situation is learning something different
  96. because of what they're doing and who they're with.
  97. Right?
  98. So finally
  99. I said, I would recommend this book to other people um
  100. especially we recommend it to people going into
  101. into an educational field or something similar like an intervention specialist
  102. and I really like it because it focused on the correct
  103. approach is to not only getting students to learn the material,
  104. but also getting students to want to learn.
  105. And again, I just think it's extremely important for um
  106. potential educators, but on that note,
  107. I also would recommend it to anyone who wants to
  108. um be a parent or um,
  109. you know, foster parent or just
  110. learning how Children learn is beneficial to anyone who remotely
  111. be around Children to be able to understand them better.
  112. So this book could really benefit a lot of different people.
  113. Mm hmm.
  114. So finally, um
  115. questions I was left with
  116. the first one was why isn't the classical
  117. theory of education used more frequently in schools?
  118. What is keeping teachers and administrators from using this approach?
  119. My thought is is it just lack of understanding, lack of um,
  120. knowledge about the view,
  121. the classical view and um it's benefits or is it more um
  122. not wanting to go against
  123. the norm or the typical way the old fashioned way of doing things.
  124. Um
  125. the second one,
  126. the second question asked afterwards would smith consider Montessori
  127. School is a good example of the classical view.
  128. So I know monastery schools aren't,
  129. not everyone likes the approach that monastery schools tape,
  130. but they do take that more tactile um
  131. approach on education.
  132. So
  133. yeah, I was just
  134. kind of wondering what he would think about that.
  135. And if you think it's more beneficial for students to be in a Montessori school than a
  136. normal setting school.
  137. Um my third question was how could the classical view and talk to learning math.
  138. So I know that throughout the book,
  139. you mentioned how it will help breathing and like comprehension based learning,
  140. but I was just curious about if
  141. it would make as big of an impact on
  142. math.
  143. So um that was my book review of the Book
  144. of Learning and forgetting by frank smith I have enjoyed.
  145. Thank you.