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Essay / The Importance of Informal Education - 1030
According to Kolb, “the process by which knowledge is created through the transformation of experience. Knowledge results from the combination of experience of capture and transformation” (Kolb, 2009). Some studies have shown that hands-on learning helps retain information. One such study was done by Purdue University in 2009 in an article titled “Hands-on Learning vs. Conferences” by Katie Ash. This study examines what researchers found when students who actually did hands-on work understood at a deeper level than students who took lectures (Ash, 2009). Alfie Kohn asks the question in his article: “Does the phrase well educated refer to a quality of schooling you received or something about yourself. Does it denote what you were taught or what you learned (and remember)” (Kohn, 2003)? When I talk about formal education, I admit that I remember classes and books less. In 1996, I took an English class and got a C. Now, nineteen years later, I'm listening to that same English class because I don't remember anything about it. that I learned. I had no reason to use