on schooling
musings on education, new forms of schooling, and what schooling has done to children
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on schooling
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”.
New Educational Models
arbesman.netif 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
-Visakan
The American Scholar: The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - William Deresiewicz
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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
Simon Sarrisx.com“I have never understood the importance of having children memorize battle dates. It seems like such a waste of mental energy. Instead, we could teach them important subjects such as How the Mind Works, How to Handle Finances, How to Invest Money for Financial Security, How to be a Parent, How to Create Good Relationships, and How to Create and
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