I have been noticed by TWITTER today by email that I have had interactions with accounts related to Russian propaganda during the period preceding the 2016 election for President.

In the past, I have been rude on the internet and some might have considered my tweets malicious.  I have found most often misunderstandings were due to tone or linguistics.  Sometimes I use reverse psychology or “negative thinking” which many find malicious in itself.  Depends on the goal.

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/fcc-statebarca-re-professionalismmatters-colaw

Like Yuval Noah Hariri said at his UC Santa Barbara lecture for The SAGE Center: “[We are evolving rapidly, we can see it.]”

Response to Jon Seipp of PBC Guru: Re: Spaced Learning and State Bar Exams

Sorrowfully, it’s like being an upper classpersons who has gone through the pains, and now the underclasspersons have to go through the initiation and pain.  The universities take money and time for three to four years.  To “practice law” one must pass an exam and be admitted separately for every jurisdiction, state and federal in which one seeks to practice unless you are granted special permission [with a latin name, like pro hac vice, for example] to appear in court for a limited time.

I’ve read the tweets personally address to me from the President of the Los Angeles County Bar.  In one tweeted he “didn’t care” if the initial preparatory education is shortened before the Bar Exam is administered.  Probably, this is the more logical course, to shorten preparatory 3 yr regimen but keep Multi-State Continuing Legal Education [hereinafter MCLE].  Continuing Legal Education [CLE in some states] is partially a market decision’s play for as you say, form over substance reasons i.e., educators, schools, examiners, regulators and the affiliated apparatus which remarkably, is dominated by publishers.  State Bar regulated continuing legal education also reinforces contacts with regulatory arms of government, such as the Supreme Court and/or Legislature depending on the jurisdiction.  Employment issues and sheer numbers of aspirants will probably not dominate the number of lawyers hired no matter which change the American Bar Association makes, if any.  In any event, students will probably be just as plentiful for institutions, professors and tutors.  In France, there are many law students but few Maitres [lawyers].

If it wasn’t Saturday, I could continue but it’s time to relax.  We are watching The Filthy Rich Guide on CNBC.  It’s funny.

I noticed your firm is from MD.  How can I find out more about the structure of PBC Guru?

Sincerely,

John Rubens

Warren College ’81

Sent from Mail for Windows 10

From: Jon Seipp
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2018 1:48 AM
To: John Rubens
Subject: Re: How We Learn – The Power of Spacing

Hi John,

Thank you for sharing your thoughts! Those kinds of exams certainly don’t seem very helpful to me. I wonder how much of it is related to spacing and how much to learning for the exams themselves. Do you think spaced learning would be a good method if it wasn’t geared towards an exam?

Best,

Jon

On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 5:14 PM, John Rubens <jrlg323@earthlink.net> wrote:

Dear Jon:

Thank you for your letter.  Here is how I responded after reading the article located from the link you provided.  I suppose I should credit the writers but I wanted to send my feedback so far on How We Learn, “Spaced Learning”.

http://blogosphere45.blogspot.com/2018/01/spaced-learning-care-of-jon-seipp-from.html

Sincerely,

John Rubens

Sent from Mail for Windows 10

From: Jon Seipp
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2018 4:11 PM
To: jrlg323@earthlink.net
Subject: How We Learn – The Power of Spacing

Hi John,

Hopefully you have your copy of How We Learn by now and have started reading!

This week I wanted to share an article about “spacing” which is one of the most powerful concepts introduced in How We Learn. In simple terms, spacing is the idea that spreading out learning over time is more effective for long term understanding than cramming all at once. Achieving this isn’t always easy but a lot of research supports this as an optimal learning strategy.

Check out the article here (https://www.td.org/Publications/Blogs/Science-of-Learning-Blog/2015/01/Spaced-Learning-an-Approach-to-Minimize-the-Forgetting-Curve) and feel free to share your thoughts about using spacing in the Online Forum (http://ucsdeducation.pbc.guru).

All the best,

Jon
Professional Book Club Guru

https://johnrubens.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/fcc-statebarca-re-professionalismmatters-colaw-specialcounsel