{"id":1516,"date":"2011-07-29T16:23:53","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T21:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/?p=1516"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:23:53","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T21:23:53","slug":"being-educated-is-all-about-half-guessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2011\/07\/29\/being-educated-is-all-about-half-guessing\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Being educated is all about half guessing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I highly recommend this fine post on why <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/07\/being_educated_is_all_about_ha.php\">&#8220;Being educated is all about half guessing&#8221;<\/a>. If all we can do is regurgitate facts that we&#8217;ve memorized somewhere along the way, we&#8217;re crippled in the fact of the new and unexpected. The people that really make a difference in the world can navigate the unknown with a combination of knowledge and inference and educated guessing.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been interesting as we&#8217;ve visited a zillion colleges this summer, which schools are helping students learn to navigate the unknown, and which are turning out editors for textbook companies :)<\/p>\n\n\t<div class=\"st-post-tags \">\n\tTags: <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/college\/\" title=\"college\">college<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/education\/\" title=\"Education\">Education<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/guessing\/\" title=\"guessing\">guessing<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/learning\/\" title=\"learning\">learning<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/teaching\/\" title=\"teaching\">teaching<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/university\/\" title=\"university\">university<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/unknown\/\" title=\"unknown\">unknown<\/a><br \/><\/div>\n\n\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2012\/07\/21\/an-unsolicited-forward-to-an-unfinished-book\/\" title=\"An unsolicited forward to an unfinished book (21 Jul 12)\">An unsolicited forward to an unfinished book<\/a> (0)<\/li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2013\/03\/18\/why-learn-understand-when-you-can-search\/\" title=\"Why learn &#038; understand when you can search? (18 Mar 13)\">Why learn &#038; understand when you can search?<\/a> (9)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I highly recommend this fine post on why &#8220;Being educated is all about half guessing&#8221;. If all we can do is regurgitate facts that we&#8217;ve memorized somewhere along the way, we&#8217;re crippled in the fact of the new and unexpected. The people that really make a difference in the world can navigate the unknown with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2011\/07\/29\/being-educated-is-all-about-half-guessing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Being educated is all about half guessing&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[703,868,702,701,156,559,704],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-os","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":862,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/07\/08\/im-sure-well-suck-at-this\/","url_meta":{"origin":1516,"position":0},"title":"I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;ll suck at this (but we&#8217;ll have fun!)","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"8 Jul 08","format":false,"excerpt":"photo credit: Leucippus Cory Q of Monkey River Town suckered WeatherGirl and I into forming a fantasy team for the Tour de France. 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