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Introduction to the Study of James

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The Month of the Bible The Book of James Imagine going through life and always needing a curriculum.   Sure, these were helpful in secondary and post-secondary education, technical schools, military education and training, and other instances where instruction is involved.   Most were didactic, instructor-led, and in some ways scripted. At some point you learned to learn without rigid curriculum.   One of the precepts of Adult Education is that life experience matters and who better to tie experience to the subject matter than the learner himself.   A second precept is that at the outcome of the adult learning experience, learners may have more questions than answers.   This is actually a good thing.   There should be a hunger to learn more. One problem with adult learning is that relying too much on experience and not much on new  material produces confirmation of what we already know without new learning.   In order to advance l...