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["scrooge McDuck" <declan@planetmail.net>]

Having returned to College for an Engineering Degrees recently enough, I appreciate Bill Million's point about TMI, or Information Overload. New concepts that are outside our normal run of experience are absorbed more slowly, particularly abstract ones. Well placed practical experience in the new concept strengths retention. I imagine there's very little practical experience in the 72 hours. With information overload, you lose the ability to learn & absorb new stuff. This occurred to me when I had an epileptic seizure and lost time in College coming up to mid term exams. I had to spend the winter holidays studying and practising maths problems just to catch up.
Permaculture is a wide topic; aside from the garden/farm design and development, topics on Sustainable Living, bee keeping, mushrooms, food fermentation, water recycling, aquaponics & fish farming, and many others are of interest. Having lectured in University system for 10 years, I imagine Bill was familiar with the limitations of students.
So there certainly was too much information for me, and my IQ qualifies me for membership of Mensa. I am not lacking prior education either.
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On 20/07/2016, 23:38 Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 4:27 PM, Alan Enzo <ecoenzo@gmail.com> wrote:

> but Mollison and other elders have advised against this because
> of the "TMI" factor (too-much information)
>

That's th one that always throws me. There can not be too much information
that your ar given a golden opportunity to learn.
How many times will an individual have the opportunity to take a PDC
especially if is is far away from where they live or is expensive.
Bird in the hand is worth ten in the bush kind of thing.
They should be willing to learn th e drafting aspects of permaculture
design, how to make a new handle for a tool, safety on permaculture sites,
i.e. snakes and spiders, yellowjackets and mosquitos, chiggers and ticks,
how to start an intentional permaculture community, how to build a raised
bed vegetable garden, how to plant fruit trees and so much more including
the inevitable spiral garden, whatever floats their boat.

LL
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