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- Memorizing poetry & literature passages is underrated. Especially at younger ages-- because what else are you going to do? A 5 yo can easily learn & retain a 6 stanza poem in a week. That accumulates to a nice mental collection over the course of childhood.
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- Music is one of the few things you can fruitfully teach at early ages that will have lifelong value. Teaching composition is neglected low-hanging fruit too. See what you can pull out of Bach keyboard Inventions, or blues or pop progressions, or whatever.
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- For teaching Science to kids, chronologically presenting a field's historical development is good --- you build from low to high complexity, many of the early experiments are memorable & replicable with minimal equipment, & weaving the history in makes it stick.
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- Teach drawing & painting, but not in some unstructured "express yourself" way. Do you not wish you had more technical drawing chops? Would you enjoy a painting class as an adult? Get the foundation as a kid, when there arent better uses of your time.
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- Teaching the bible is worthwhile and underrated. Secular people hardly bother anymore. But the stories are wise & beautiful, and much of western lit presupposes familiarity. High payoff for effort invested.
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- History? I honestly do not know. The payoff here doesn't happen until you're far down into the weeds, reading something close to primary sources, which is beyond kids. Provide them a sparse chronological armature, to be filled in later? Seems boring.
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Foolish statement! Learning math young helps make you good at math for life. I wanted to learn advanced math before age 10 but nobody taught me.
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> Learning math young helps make you good at math for life. Have anything to back that statement up?
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Math is a language of analysis. When I was in elementary school, it seemed natural to me that everything should be quantified and viewed as probability distributions, and so I could’ve learned plenty and retained it for life (I have near-perfect memory for all math I learn).
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If you can learn languages when young most easily, and if top chess players generally started at very young ages, why retard a child’s desire to learn math?
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I think we're on the same page. Math at a young age is binary-- kids are incapable of learning a concept until their neural wiring reaches a certain stage of development, at which point they'll be able to instantly grok & retain forever.
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Of course, there’s the Tiger Mom approach for teaching math...
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OOH yes, per se, OTOH I feel reading before that is valuable, and reading non-fiction without some numeracy is going up bullshit creek without a paddle. WDYT?
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