Comment Re:pen and paper (Score 2) 217
Ummm... how am I supposed to take notes if I skip the class alltogether?
Take someone else's?
How about the teacher's? Surely you realize he already has notes and could make copies of all he is going to write to all students. As a matter of fact, a lot of teachers do it, it's called duplicated notes.
You must've missed the part where I talked about writing my notes. See, it's not reading them that ingrains the information, but writing it down for myself. Otherwise, yea, fuck paying for class, I'd just buy the teacher's edition of the book.
That makes no sense. Whatsoever.
I'm sorry, there is nothing I can do if you can't understand simple English.
Says the guy who completely misinterpreted my plainly written post. Pot, kettle.
Word of advice, dude - try to actually understand what people say in their responses, before you get all butthurt and reactive. Not everyone who replies to your posts is taking a shot at you.
I would mod you up if I had points. I completely agree with you (and I'm not even sure why the previous commenter even got pissed!).
The purpose of taking notes is to distil what we are reading or listening or observing, and then noting it down on paper in a way that makes sense to us. The act itself has merit as lack of speed (and even laziness) forces us to quickly assimilate what we are hearing or seeing, and write it down as efficiently and quickly as we can so we don't fall behind in a lecture. More importantly, it forces us to think through the topic and formally defining it in our own terms.
I even argue that the best note taking happens when we are constrained by limited amounts of note paper. If I have only one page for an hour long lecture, I will really try hard to note down what I think are the important bits or the bits I would most likely forget.
The point really is not to compress the content from say, a hundred pages into one page - I really see the act of note taking as the act of learning itself.
Sure, I'm sure others have different and probably better ways of learning. However, this works for me and I haven't discovered a better way.