デヴィッド・フラムの勉強法 |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Frum
When I was in law school, I devised my own idiosyncratic solution to the problem of studying a topic I knew nothing about.
I'd wander into the library stacks, head to the relevant section, and pluck a book at random. I'd flip to the footnotes, and write down the books that seemed to occur most often. Then I'd pull them off the shelves, read their footnotes, and look at those books.
It usually took only 2 or 3 rounds of this exercise before I had a pretty fair idea of who were the leading authorities in the field. After reading 3 or 4 of those books, I usually had at least enough orientation in the subject to understand what the main questions at issue were — and to seek my own answers, always provisional, always subject to new understanding, always requiring new reading and new thinking
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まず図書館に行き、知りたい分野の本のセクションに行く。そこで数冊の本をランダムに選び、いきなりそこでその本の脚注を読む。
その脚注でよく共通して引用されている本の目星をつける。
で、それらの本を数冊読めが、とりあえずその分野における重要な議論と、そこで問われているメインの「質問」を見つけることができる、ということです。
これは意外と役に立つかもしれません。