Tal como pusimos en el Blog de la red www.psygnos.net/blog falleció ayer Albert Ellis, una figura pionera, y que no podrá ser pasada por alto en su aporte fundacional a las terapias cognitivo-comportamentales. En su honor iremos publicando algunos artículos y refrencias sobre su técnica.

Usually characters are acquired as isolated individual items that happen to be present in a given context, and the learner is subjected to absorbing many characters of diverse complexity in form and meaning. Usually a story of some kind is present, and the prime interest of the learner is in the story aspect of the lesson. As such, the main focus of attention is in the story, while character learning is secondary and incidental. Traditionally, the teacher always makes a big point about the proper stroke order of writing. It in not uncommon that a character is copied 50 or 60 times, or more. A better way of teaching is needed, since thousands of characters must be learned and used. However, the standard answer has been, "But, this has always been the way traditionally taught, and for thousands of years!", as if to say, "Who are we to question it?! It is the only way we know, therefor, it must be right."