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Against Algebra
Advocates of progressive education had long rejected rote learning, seeing it as not only authoritarian but also ineffective. Now they feared the new focus on math and science might exacerbate the problem. At the same time, even some tech-focused reformers were now wary of the problem of static thinking, and so it was that the progressive animosity
... See moreSamuel W. Franklin • The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History
Now consider our current situation. Despite all the language professing otherwise, in general the education system of the United States is based entirely on genetic determinism. A child is born assumed to have innate traits, including, for example, a preference as to what they want to be when they grow up (somehow just waiting fully-formed inside o... See more
Erik Hoel • Why We Stopped Making Einsteins
In traditional learning methods, some kids struggle to make the connection between what they learn and real-world problems
Ana Lorena Fabrega • Chrisman Frank and Ana Lorena Fabrega: How Childhood Education Will Change
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Schools have deemphasized raw knowledge (most of which gets forgotten anyway), and instead stressed their role in fostering reasoning ability, creativity, and independent thinking.
Joshua Foer • Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Thus, this all begs the question, do modern schools actually build knowledge and capacity for all, or do they just reinforce old ideas of how industrial needs are met with a workforce? If schools are, at their fundamental level, designed to create the workers of the future, why are we still teaching siloed skills of the industrial age, when we have... See more
Leyla Acaroglu • System Failures: The Education System and the Proliferation of Reductive Thinking
Her philosophy: puzzles should be used more often in teaching math. First of all, they entertain us while educating us how to think rigorously. And second, puzzles can lead to genuine advances in mathematics—topics such as conditional probability and topology were originally explored in puzzle form.