Multiple golf instructors told me over the years that "feel isn't real." The idea is what we think we are doing is not what our body is actually doing. A common instructional tool with golf is for a student to over-emphasize or exaggerate a new move in the swing to get a better feel. Our students are experiencing a similar phenomenon.
The Legal Skills Prof. Blog had a post last week about a new Harvard study relating to students perceptions of their learning. Not shockingly, students felt better with passive teaching but performed worse on subsequent exams. I encourage everyone to read the blog post here. I plan to send it to my students as well. As an Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice told a few of us recently, "if it isn't hard, it isn't worth doing."
(Steven Foster)
