... imagine the hunt and kill I could not relate the event to a positive outcome. Several years later, while a freshman in high school, I struggled with the same learning challenges. I was enrolled in a geometry class. Mr. Hathaway, my teacher was scolding me for not working hard enough to understand theorems. Yet, for hours I poured over my math books, resorting finally to basic memorization to ... regurgitate the information back to him on a final exam. I barely passed. The concepts of geometry were just too foreign and abstract. I could not relate anything from everyday life to the mater...

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... , 1956, p. 129) Thus, Plato (1956) is declaring that the soul is the source of knowledge for the learner. Plato expands on this declaration by having Socrates question a slave boy about a geometry problem. Socrates' questions help the boy discover the answer about a concept he believed not to be cognizant of. This experience highlights the notion Plato espouses: that learning the truth is ... ...

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... guidance that they can come to actively know. Through questioning, knowledge is recovered from within. A good example of this is the part of Meno when Socrates questions a slave boy about a geometry problem. The boy seemed to know nothing about Socrates" problem. However, through a series of questions, the boy actually knew the answer without knowing he solved the problem. Although Socrates" beliefs ... ...

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... in the right way. Rousseau did not believe that a child this young was able to learn history because they were just facts and they couldn't comprehend it; the same with geometry and fables. Emile needed to grasp knowledge first before he learned about facts or at least that is what Rousseau believed. By teaching this way Rousseau felt that the individual ... ...

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... to figure things out with their eyes wide open and lots of questions at the ready. Nature, helps us build and broaden our view of the world. As Emerson says, "geometry, a pure abstraction of the human mind, is the measure of planetary motion." We realize when all these singular pieces come together we see nature, a compilation of what we have been ... ...

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... in the right way. Rousseau did not believe that a child this young was able to learn history because they were just facts and they couldn't comprehend it; the same with geometry and fables. Emile needed to grasp knowledge first before he learned about facts or at least that is what Rousseau believed. By teaching this way Rousseau felt that the individual ... ...

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