{"id":5689,"date":"2024-12-21T04:11:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T04:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5689"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:31:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:31:55","slug":"saying-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5689","title":{"rendered":"SAYING IT AGAIN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEverything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.\u201d \u2015 Andr\u00e9 Gide<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It took me years as a teacher to recognize the crucial role of repetition in learning.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, lack of attention isn&#8217;t the only culprit &#8211; and perhaps not even the worst offender. Prejudice and assumptions stand in the way of new insights and they are not toppled quickly.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it seems to me that repetition also has a way of establishing credibility: if the teacher is saying this yet again, it really must be important. I knew a woman who &#8211; whenever her boss asked her to do something &#8211; always threw away the first two memos on the subject. If he sent a third, she knew he really meant it.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although as an introvert I have always hated repeating myself, I consciously force myself to do it often these days for the sake of communication, both in promoting Mission Resource and in preaching at Sardinia.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A competent teacher does not assume <b><i>anyone <\/i><\/b>was listening the first time.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEverything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.\u201d \u2015 Andr\u00e9 Gide It took me years as a teacher to recognize the crucial role of repetition in learning. Of course, lack of attention isn&#8217;t the only culprit &#8211; and perhaps not even the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-repetition","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5690,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5689\/revisions\/5690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}