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Your Best Teacher is Your Last Mistake | ||
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| varjakpaul Newbie United States Joined 4928 days ago 22 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Spanish, Mandarin, Persian | Message 25 of 26 30 May 2011 at 5:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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Since I didn't know what the heck it meant I just went with "you learn from your mistakes." Which is true. And why we shouldn't fear making mistakes while trying to communicate in a foreign language.
I don't think the phrase denigrates teachers; because there are no perfect teachers. It is a truism, so take it for what it is worth. But, agreed, the way it is phrased is, um, dumb. I don't agree that necessity is the greatest teacher; necessity might be a good (the best?) motivator, but that is not the same as a teacher. As for the truth/truism of the phrase, when properly expressed, I still recall a certain vocabulary word I missed on my GRE and I can't recall any other specific word from the test -- this was twenty three four ago. So, anyway a mistake on the GRE helped me learn that word's meaning forever (because I went home and looked it up), but what does this truism say about all the words I didn't mess up on? So I don't even know if I agree with the saying. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6582 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 26 of 26 31 May 2011 at 9:33am | IP Logged | ||
Wait, what? It's a truism that you don't agree with? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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