A great night of dancing, donations
We have attended the Kelseyville Street Dances from the very first one. This last one for the year had the largest crowd ever. A super-great band that had dozens of couples dancing. The donations from everyone for the fire victims must have been huge. Congratulations to everyone that was there Thursday night.
I am certain all fire victims will say “Thank you, Kelseyville.”
John Ornellas, Lakeport
Rote learning
Learning is acquired by a plurality of presentations and reviews — that is, by rote. Rote learning was adopted centuries ago without the impetus of aversion to any other system of learning. It was adopted because it was seen to satisfy the requirements of learning. Our aversion to rote learning is based on our distaste for the boredom inevitable in repetition rather than on its inefficacy. The aspersing adjective unreasoning has no more affinity for rote learning than for the instrumentalist, behaviorist, or any other educational system. Reasoning also is learned by rote. In fact, all learning systems are effective only to the degree to which rote learning is embedded in them; for rote learning contains the quintessence of education, repeated presentation and review.
Dean Sparks, Lucerne
