Guidebooks, manuals, tomes and other sources of information are similar to maps. They might be accurate, but they are also fallible in practical terms.
Approaches to teaching and learning are varied. Attempts to copy the ways of folks with different cultural mindsets to ours might yield short term gains.
Does it pay to be open minded? In many cases this might be so,
Looking at tricky situation, one person might see a disaster, while another sees an opportunity.
Perhaps we should all learn how to ‘wing it’.
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