Now you know 现在,你要知道 When should you teach children, and when shouldyou let them explore? 什么时候应该告诫孩子,和什么时候应该让孩子自己摸索? It is one of the oldest debates in education. 这是教育界最古老的争论之一。 Should teachers tell pupils the way things are or encourage them to find out for themselves? 老师应该告诉学生事物的本质还是要鼓励学生自行摸索? Telling children truthsabout the world helps them learn those facts more quickly. 告诉孩子们世界的真理有助于他们更快地了解现实。 Yet the efficient learning of specificfacts may lead to the assumption that when the adult has finished teaching, 对具体事物的高效率学习也许导致孩子们会有这个假设的假设。 there is nothing further to learnbecause if there were, 当长辈停止教育时,那就不需要进一步的学习了因为如果有的话, the adult would have said so. 长辈们也应该应经告诉他们了。 A study just published in Cognition by Elizabeth Bonawitz of the University of California,Berkeley, and Patrick Shafto of the University of Louisville, in Kentucky, suggests that istrue. |