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Learned behaviors...

Well, seeing as how surgery is not typically taught at the K-12 level (or the undergraduate either) I don't think your analogy works. Even setting aside my objection, learned behaviors like attention to detail, ability to focus on a task, and the desire to be properly prepared are not usually addressed beyond K-12. Once you hit college, most professors expect you to be able to show up on time, stay on-task, etc. Those behaviors have to be learned somewhere and if universities expect you to already have them, then it is clear that educators expect such learning to take place in K-12.

You didn't even take into account the attention or ability to stay focused of your fictional surgion. Could this be because we generally expect our surgions to already have such behaviors??? Where do you think those behaviors are aquired?

by Rob Michael on Fri, 07/11/2003 - 14:41

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