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"professional" vs "amateur" education

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Sat, 05/31/2008 - 2:26pm.

I'm intrigued by the issues this particular parallel raises. Yes, "professionals" may have more consistent success at producing "predictable skills present at predetermined ages". The question it seems to me we're coming to is whether that is or is not the objective of education, either of horses or of people.

If the objective is actually to enhance inquiry sophistication, then it may depend fundamentally on "amateurs", not in the sense of people with less experience but instead in the sense of people who are engaged with individual cases rather than with "standard" achievement. And this, of course, may depend on having more experience with individual variation than that of "professionals".

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