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From: gordon@warwick.UUCP
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Subject: "The Knowledge"
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Date: Tue, 22-Apr-86 09:22:09 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 22 09:22:09 1986
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"The Knowledge" is a test which London taxi drivers have to pass
as part of the requirements of their profession. It is quite simply
a question of learning the streets of a section of the capital.
The method they employ is to go around the streets, learning as
they go. They do not stare at a map. Some instruction is given in
the classroom, however.
To me, this highlighted the differences in the learning process,
between a machine system and a human, rather well. Humans are not
computers or machine systems of any sort.

Gordon Joly  -- {seismo,decvax,ucbvax}!mcvax!ukc!warwick!gordon