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AUTODIDACT ERIC HOFFER

Dr Erick Hoffer Powerful Quote: People who bite the hand that feeds them; usually, lick the foot that kicks them Today's AutoDidact Dr. Eric Hoffer (1898 or 1902 - 1983) A longshoreman, blue collared intellectual and philosopher, who captured the attention of audiences through his powerful writings. Eric Hoffer, who received honorary doctorate degree from two educational institutions in 1971, had humble beginnings, and could not further his early education due to personal challenges and hardships. An individual who was credited to have self-taught himself an entire gamut of areas, gained prominence after being in the doldrums of wilderness and hardship for several decades with his aphoristic philosophical, non-concocted and terse writings extracted from his bibliophile (love for books) nature further complemented by experiential and observational learnings. Eric Hoffer who had a dickensian story of his own on his early upbringings, drew attention for his intelle

As a follow up to the below post, I got a question asking me to provide an example on what it means to have a...

As a follow up to the below post, I got a question asking me to provide an example on what it means to have a balancing act between theory and practice. https://plus.google.com/111375717217714398633/posts/2PEQ3qFDyzd Let us look at an example to address this question. Recently, I was working on a math problem with my daughter. The problem goes like this: There are 10 birds on a tree. A hunter takes aim at the birds, and shoots one. How many birds are left now? Right before doing this math problem (coincidence), while having a discussion with my daughter about birds that come regularly to feed on our bird feeder units hanging in the patio of our house, we noticed that all birds flew away as soon as the birds heard any noise or disturbance (see a gif of the real situation shared below). Taking this real world observation, my daughter answered zero vocally to the above math question, while also answering 9 based on simple math in her book. If she were to write 0 in a real test, most prob

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