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By Cory Gaines | Complete Colorado As a decades-long teacher I see education helping someone learn how to think, to be able to understand novel situations. In this, education is separate from training.  For example,I might train a student how to do a particular calculation in physics.It would be something they could repeat later with other numbers, but it’s not transferable.  They’ve not learned to evaluate or apply what they know in a new context. Given the name, you might think that a recent Youth Climate Summit held in Carbondale (covered in both a Post Independent piece and later a Colorado Sun effort) would be about teaching youngsters about climate and climate change. You’d be close, but the point of this summit was not education, it was activist t...