Chapter 1 Flashcards
What is a prequisite to understanding something?
Knowledge
True or False:
It is required to know everything about something in order to understand it.
False
In modern society:
• we are often inundated with too many facts, which can come to the detriment of
• an increased understanding of something
Modern Communications Media (TV, radio, magazines, internet web sites, social media):
• have packaged views and intellectual positions/opinions which can inadvertently cause you to
- play back the packaged view and intellectual positions
* instead of making up your own mind on the matter.
Modern Communications Media has led to:
• an increased level of information/knowledge and understanding but it can be questioned as to whether it has
• much enhanced our level of and what level of understanding it can express or teach
True or False:
It is not required to know everything about something in order to understand it.
True
Active Reading is
• Mental activity while reading, asking and answering questions to comprehend/understand the content
The goal of reading is to recieve all the information and understanding that
• the writer intended to communicate
The first goal of reading:
• reading for information, is achieved when reading newspapers, magazines, or anything else that, according to our skills and talents
• is at once throughly intelligible for increasing our store of information/facts
Reading is learning when you
gain more information and/or increased understanding
The second goal of reading:
• reading for understanding, can only be achieved when
• the writer is above the level of the reader in terms of understanding and insights
Learning from a present teacher is through
Listening
Learning from an absent teacher is through
Reading
Ask a teacher a question
and he will answer it
Ask a book a question
and you must answer it yourself
