Learning through random exploration

[Anonymous]

A part of the 2014 David Bowie retrospective was the 1955 edition of the Oxford Companion to Music, which he used to learn how to score music. I had the idea years ago that an interesting way to teach music would be to have the student pick a topic at random in the book and investigate it for a week. If you want to learn something, you can do it yourself, and you won’t have to be pushed, and you would have learned something that you could apply immediately. This is essentially how I learned, and the way most learned through imitation and emulation, then investigating things you were unclear on.

To what extent does rote learning squelch exploratory learning?

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