Re: [TCML] Teaching Coiling

[James Howells <jmshwlls@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Miles Waldron wrote:
> YEA DAVE !!!!!!!!!!
>
> Thank you for saying more on this topic. I suppose I am not good with
> semantics. The innovation and frustration *IS* the learning process;
> *IS* the scientific method, and *IS* good for the mind. If at first you
> don't succeed then try, try, again. These kinds of statements are not
> just silly rhymes, they are true. .
>   
While I consider myself the most unintelligent and inexperienced person 
on this list
I have picked up a couple of observations over my 60 years
There are different types of "learners": there are the memory 
/theoretical ones and the Kenetic ones :
and some a mixture of the two
The kenetic ones learn by doing; others are more fortunate and can just 
memorise things
- I have seen lots of people that can spew out formulae and pass exams 
with ease but have no conception of how to make anything or what happens 
in practice if you change a parameter
- I have seen people who can make things work, and make them 
beautifully but struggle to understand simple abstract formulea and 
equations

Surely, we should be able to help, encourage and empathize with all 
these types of "learners"
It took me about 11 months ( at, about 25 hours or more a week) to learn 
about TESLA coils and the associated HV
It took me 2 weeks to build a working one
I could have learned JUST how to make a TESLA coil in a shorter time had 
I had a structured  program of tuition but I am not sure my interest 
would have been maintained as it was while | was making ancillary items  
and lots of mistakes ... bringing some thing new every day and 
progressing in small steps of achievement


I have always tried to keep A. Einsteins remark in mind :

*The FAIREST thing we can experience is the MYSTERIOUS*

*It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of TRUE ART and 
TRUE SCIENCE*

*He who knows NOT mystery and can no longer WONDER, no longer feel 
AMAZEMENT is as good as DEAD*



  1. Einstein

As a "self help group" we should be able to encompass all types of 
"learners" ... even if we do not understand  the way they HAVE to learn
Over the last 18 months or so I have been very impressed how YOU ( in 
the USA) seem to put every thing into your hobbies and into
seemingly, making school (  at all levels) interesting and exciting.... 
so different from how the UK has fallen into teaching the same things, 
in the same way all over the country making education like some grey 
blanket - to achieve the Governments statistical aims of so many exams 
passed at certain grades.
So : different people  NEED to learn indifferent ways .. do not do what 
the UK has done and put every one in an educational Straitjacketing



















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