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Stenka25 Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary
Sarcastic remark?
sarcastic remark?
The passage below is from ‘the Blank Slate’ by Steven Pinker.
http://evolbiol.ru/blankslate/blankslate.htm
“A child surrounded by aggression, violence, or inadequate stimulation will reflect these connections in the brain and behavior.” Well, yes; if the environment affects the child at all, it would do so by changing connections in the brain. A special issue of the journal Educational Technology and Society was intended “to examine the position that learning takes place in the brain of the learner, and that pedagogies and technologies should be designed and evaluated on the basis of the effect they have on student brains.” The guest editor (a biologist) did not say whether the alternative was that learning takes place in some other organ of the body like the pancreas or that it takes place in an immaterial soul.
I'd like to ask two questions regarding the underlined sentence.
First, I think 'the alternative' can be supplemented by 'to the opinion that learning takes place in the brain' to make the meaning complete as the following example sentence.
? Arbitration has traditionally been seen as a cheaper alternative to lawsuitsbecause legal costs are lower.
Am I right?
Second, since the opinion that learning takes place in the brain is somewhat banal, the author made a sarcastic remark with the underlined that clause.
Am I right?
The passage below is from ‘the Blank Slate’ by Steven Pinker.
http://evolbiol.ru/blankslate/blankslate.htm
“A child surrounded by aggression, violence, or inadequate stimulation will reflect these connections in the brain and behavior.” Well, yes; if the environment affects the child at all, it would do so by changing connections in the brain. A special issue of the journal Educational Technology and Society was intended “to examine the position that learning takes place in the brain of the learner, and that pedagogies and technologies should be designed and evaluated on the basis of the effect they have on student brains.” The guest editor (a biologist) did not say whether the alternative was that learning takes place in some other organ of the body like the pancreas or that it takes place in an immaterial soul.
I'd like to ask two questions regarding the underlined sentence.
First, I think 'the alternative' can be supplemented by 'to the opinion that learning takes place in the brain' to make the meaning complete as the following example sentence.
? Arbitration has traditionally been seen as a cheaper alternative to lawsuitsbecause legal costs are lower.
Am I right?
Second, since the opinion that learning takes place in the brain is somewhat banal, the author made a sarcastic remark with the underlined that clause.
Am I right?
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Stenka25 First, I think 'the alternative' can be supplemented by 'to the opinion that learning takes place in the brain' to make the meaning complete as the following example sentence.? Am I right? Yes, you are.
- Stenka25 First, I think 'the alternative' can be supplemented by 'to the opinion that learning takes place in the brain' to make the meaning complete as the following example sentence.?
- Am I right?
- Yes, you are.
- Am I right?
- Yes, you are.
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Stenka25First, I think 'the alternative' can be supplemented by 'to the opinion that learning takes place in the brain' to make the meaning complete as the following example sentence.? Arbitration has traditionally been seen as a cheaper alternative to lawsuitsbecause legal costs are lower.Am I right?Yes, you are.
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