Does Practice Make Perfect?
I just heard a swim coach working with a masters club. She said practice makes perfect. What she was teaching should never be taught.
I don't think practice makes perfect, do you?
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A few years ago I took an intro to cognitive psych class. The professor would always tell us, "repetition increases learning." One day we all chanted it about twenty times. So, now I remember that repetition increases learning.
But learning is not the same thing as perfection. Undesirable things are easy to learn with repetition. I think you're getting at the old cliche that perfect practice makes perfect, and I agree.
A few years ago I took an intro to cognitive psych class. The professor would always tell us, "repetition increases learning." One day we all chanted it about twenty times. So, now I remember that repetition increases learning.
But learning is not the same thing as perfection. Undesirable things are easy to learn with repetition. I think you're getting at the old cliche that perfect practice makes perfect, and I agree.
