[TheForge] CAD Software

[Michael Horgan]

Especially those bottle openers, Pete!
At 04:36 PM 4/11/2008, Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer wrote:
>Being self-taught, i'm expert in doing it the wrong way..pf
>
>Andrew Vida wrote:
>>
>>Grover.Richardson at gtri.gatech.edu wrote:
>>
>>>Last lesson for the day, practice makes permanent.  If you learn how to
>>>do it wrong, and practice, you will learn to do it perfectly, wrong.
>>     Good point.  An important corollary is to learn to do an 
>> operation correctly the first time.  In teaching, showing students 
>> examples of the wrong way can be a good learning aid, but it MUST 
>> be showed *after* the student has learn the correct way.  If you 
>> do it in the wrong order, chances are good that one of the wrong 
>> ways will stick and become habit.  Cognitive psychology 101... 
>> especially in children and young adults.
>>     -Andy