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Ferris Wheel; by Sasha Rudensky, Wesley an University, CT, student of J. Seeley

6Understanding the Nature of Problems, Solutions, and Assignments

“Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?”

Richard P. Feynman

 

One of the truths of photographic education is that we solve problems to learn. It is through learning by doing that we make the greatest strides in learning photography. In rough terms, the majority of the active learning situations in photography are seen in the assignments we give. Though we cannot deny that research is active in many cases, it is through use of cameras, ...

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