Way of learning

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caleb_Gattegno

"Caleb Gattegno’s pedagogical approach is characterised by several radical propositions based on the minute observation of human learning in many and varied situations. This is a brief description of three of these propositions.

First, Gattegno noticed that there is an “energy budget” for learning. Human beings have a highly developed sense of the economics of their own energy and are very sensitive to the cost involved in using it. It is therefore reasonable to seek ways of learning which are “cheap” in terms of the amount of energy spent. He proposed a unit of effort in learning elementary maths, which he called the ogden. This is similar to the modern notion of computational complexity.

Second, Gattegno considers that only awareness is educable in human beings and therefore proposes pedagogical procedures based on awareness.

Third, he suggests that for pedagogical actions to be effective, teaching should be subordinated to learning."