on schooling
musings on education, new forms of schooling, and what schooling has done to children
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on schooling
across many dimensions we have been acculturated to value the aggregated over the individual, and defaulting to the average consensus has become comfortable in its familiarity. This is what I observed in how students are taught writing by following templates like the five-paragaph essay. No one believes the products of that process are actually, yo... See more
one of the reasons school fails to help people model success is that a series of tests introduces no randomness.
Success in real life involves a great and careful search of unknowns, not a pinning down or studying of knowns
The Opportunity Atlas
opportunityatlas.org
Children Full of Life (1 of 5)
youtube.comA beautiful documentary (this is part one of 5, 10mins each) that follows a fourth grade class in a Tokyo neighbourhood, led by their astounding educator Toshiro Kanamori. He asserts that: Life is undervalued every day. A teacher’s job is to show how precious life is. And unlike any classroom I’ve been in, “the class goal for Grade 4 is to understand how to live a happy life and how to care for other people”.
The American Scholar: The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - William Deresiewicz
William Deresiewicztheamericanscholar.org
if we actually believed that maximizing positive variance was more valuable than minimizing negative variance, we would design our education systems very differently. most schools are variance-minimization fields
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