Blogging Ottinger (tim)Fear and Learning
Apparently standard learning skills actually make learning harder for students under stress. And all students are under stress, no?
I still wake up in a cold sweat from a recurring nightmare where I’m forced to return to my old High School to relearn all the things that I didn’t retain. It’s truly horrible. I can’t remember my schedule, I go to the wrong classes at the wrong time with the wrong books, I can’t find my homework, and I can’t remember which locker is mine (a total inability to recall the number). I wake up in a panic, absolutely no good to anyone, with my 43-year-old heart pounding like a jackhammer.
Actually, almost everyone I know has recurring nightmares about their academic experience. You think that would tell you something about the way schools work, wouldn’t you?
