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OK, this guy sounds very impressive, but his educational experiences were so very atypical that I'm concerned whether he'd have any real grasp of how normal people learn.

I get the feeling that going to his classes would be like getting swimming lessons from a mermaid.



Success through atypical educational models is something we desperately need to counteract the overwhelming failure of the typical ones.


And why shouldn't I want to take swimming lessons from a mermaid? Sounds like a dream.


I originally wrote "merman", I should have stuck with that. Yes, if you want to look at boobies then learning swimming from a mermaid is a good idea, but if you want to learn to swim it's non-ideal.

"OK, now thrash your tail"

"I don't have a tail!"

"Oh... uhhh, so do those leg things move independently or what?"




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