Education
by Anne-Laure Le Cunff and · updated 16d ago
Education
For hooks and Freire, the classroom is a mirror of the world. So, when the world struggles with sexism, racism, and the many types of prejudice shaping social life, our education system struggles with them as well. The space for learning can be one of oppression, or one of liberation.
from Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures by Seth Goldenberg
Keely Adler added 2mo ago
- I know plenty of literate adults who can decode words, but who also appear to be lousy readers.
from We Need to Make More Readers by John Warner
Faith Hahn added 10mo ago
- To me, what’s happening with teaching reading looks very much like what has happened with teaching writing, namely that we reduce something complex, human, and necessarily messy, to something smaller, discrete and oversimplified so it can be tested and measured, in order to provide comfort that we’re making “progress.”
We are courting a phenomenon k... See morefrom We Need to Make More Readers by John Warner
Faith Hahn added 10mo ago
- Payments to servicers are due in two months, and at least in my own case, my servicer hasn’t bothered to formally calculate my monthly payment yet. Sites will crash. Staffs are ill-equipped. People will pay back balances which aren’t their own. As more servicers crash and burn, the students beholden to them will reenter the endless maze of repaymen... See more
from How to lose a lot of money by Rachdele
Faith Hahn added 10mo ago
- The paradigm in the education system is theory first, practice second. Perhaps the opposite should be true.
from FRNTIER | Dec Thomas | Substack
sari added 1y ago
- “The person who learns the most in any classroom is the teacher.
If you really want to learn a topic, then “teach” it. Write a book. Teach a class. Build a product. Start a company.
The act of making something will force you to learn more deeply than reading ever will.”from 3-2-1: On Failure, the Importance of Teaching, and Handling the Expectations of Others | James Clear by James Clear
sari added 1y ago
The purpose of education is to develop agency within a child. Purposeful work and achieving mastery are tools to getting there. They aren’t the results of learning and imagination, it’s the other way around—learning is simply the consequence of doing. To understand this is to understand the ecology that fosters genius and talent.
from School Is Not Enough by Simon Sarris
sari added 1y ago
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