Re: Can Common Sense be Taught?
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Oh I think it can be taught, but not by a person and not to anyone who doesn't wish to learn. The best teacher of common sense is experience and pain, you don't know fire is hot as a kid no matter how many times your told...but burn yourself one time and you never forget it. This^ Common sense can absolutely be taught. It should be taught early by parents and teachers. And, as Hobbs said, by experience. Unfortunately, some parents and most teachers are failing in this regard.
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Re: Can Common Sense be Taught?
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i look back now and realize what my parents were doing and am very greatful they weren't just jerks sometimes and honestly did have my best interest in mind.pray i taught my boys the same as i believe eventually it will be of the most valuable of human traits.
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Re: Can Common Sense be Taught?
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Oh I think it can be taught, but not by a person and not to anyone who doesn't wish to learn. The best teacher of common sense is experience and pain, you don't know fire is hot as a kid no matter how many times your told...but burn yourself one time and you never forget it. I would think the above is more an example of learned knowledge rather than common sense. If you burn your mouth from hot soup that just came off the flame of a stove, common sense should tell you the stove is hot. Knowing the water is deep and you can't swim, common sense tells you to stay out of deep water. Not a parent telling/teaching you, nor you nearly drowning before figuring it out.
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Re: Can Common Sense be Taught?
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Common sense is something you are born with or without to whatever degree. You cannot teach common sense. If it is taught, it is considered a skill, ability or understanding by that point. "Common sense" would tell you that you can't fly, therefore you wouldn't jump off of a bridge trying to do so. The definition of common sense is something you are born with not taught.
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Re: Can Common Sense be Taught?
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you burn your mouth from hot soup that just came off the flame of a stove, common sense should tell you the stove is hot. Knowing the water is deep and you can't swim, common sense tells you to stay out of deep water. Not a parent telling/teaching you, nor you nearly drowning before figuring it out. When you were born, you didn't know what hot, soup, a stove, burning, water, deep, or drowning was. Somebody had to teach you those things, or you learned them from experience.
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Re: Can Common Sense be Taught?
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Your missing it.
Common sense is two boys touching that hot stove. One has enough born in common sense to not touch it again, but the other touches it again because he doesn't have the same amount of common sense.
Now, you could've taught them to not touch it, but that's not what is considered common sense.
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Re: Can Common Sense be Taught?
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Your missing it.
Common sense is two boys touching that hot stove. One has enough born in common sense to not touch it again, but the other touches it again because he doesn't have the same amount of common sense. I understand that, that makes sense. The second boy just needs enough lessons, and he'll get the point eventually I suppose I might agree that common sense can't be taught in that sense, but I wouldn't call it common sense, just stupidity.
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Re: Can Common Sense be Taught?
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I ask because it is an element I want to expose at the Youth Camp we are working on.
The Military seems to do a good job of teaching it however we don't want ours to be a "boot camp."
Thank you everyone for all the input and it sounds like the best way is to provide as many experiences as we can that the "individual" will actually learn from vs trying to teach it literally.
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Re: Can Common Sense be Taught?
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Common sense is something you are born with. It can be taught to a point if started early enough. It can also be lost if a person spends too much time around a person or people who have lost all of their own common sense, such as in a university. Common sense at a young age is a learned experience like learning respect for others. As soon as you lose respect for others, your common sense also slips away until none is left.
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