What ever happened to studying the old fashioned way?

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I'm with Pangolin, I don't remember having to "learn" to study. I always found the material interesting. One of my favorite things in class was when the teacher would put the curled up film strip in that ancient projector and someone was supposed to forward it one frame when the "beep" showed up on the taped lecture. A lot of people considered it "lame" or whatever word was used then, but I LOVED them. Still enjoy lectures, the drier, the better. Book TV is on my favorite channel short list. In retrospect, I think I was the nerdiest of the nerds. Would not change a thing about that, either.

There was a series on PBS, called "Western Tradition". Eugen Weber of UCLA gave a series of something like a hundred, 30 minute lectures. We bought the entire set. Still enjoy them. Lots of information packed into each and every sentence he chose to present.

Here's the website: http://www.learner.org/resources/series58.html

Enjoy

We had a full set of encyclopedias and I read each one cover to cover, several times in the course of my childhood. Once you get used to really learning information, rather than what non-talent got busted for drugs, or showed her choochie-coo to the paparazzi, that other stuff seems lame.