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Holographic Theory of Learning
Learn about one subject thoroughly enough, and you learn about everything
You’ll need to study and understand historical context, the period in which he lived, the geography and culture of the country that writer is from, his language, history of literature of that country and its place in the history of world literature, literary influences on that writer, his contemporaries, the people he met and worked with, etc. By commenting our code, giving our variables appropriate names, etc, we learn to respect the community and to be helpful to other people who work with us. They sometimes discover a single historical source or archeological finding, and based on detailed studying of it, they get quite good idea about the society in which it was created, the time period, the culture, the customs, the power dynamics, the level of economic development, etc.
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