Is mimicry always a bad thing?
Make not your thoughts your prisons. Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra Mimicry is the conscious or unconscious copying of experts in order. To understand the potential dangers of mimicry, it helps to understand the difference between learning and performance. Perhaps the differences can be summed up like this: Performance is inflexible, short-term and easy to spot, whereas learning is flexible, durable and invisible. Much of what we do in classrooms is geared towards maximising students' performance (because it's easy to spot) whilst ignoring whether learning is taking place (because it's very hard to correctly infer). Increasing student's performance is widely regarded as an acceptable [...]